Michiko Ishimure (石牟礼道子, Ishimure Michiko, 11 March 1927 – 10 February 2018)[1] was a Japanese writer and activist.

She won the 1973 Ramon Magsaysay Award, among the most prestigious awards in Asia, for publicizing writings about Minamata disease, which was extremely controversial at the time.

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