Seventy years after Minamata disease was officially recognized, patients and support groups say junior high textbooks are downplaying the continuing contamination problem and the number of the victims ...
Minamata disease describes methylmercury poisoning, which results in irreversible damage to the nervous system. The disease first occurred when toxic pollutants affected the fish that comprised the ...
TOKYO, Aug 26 (Reuters) - Japan's government lobbied hard for a global pact that limits mercury use and to name the resulting treaty after Minamata, the site of a homegrown industrial disaster from ...
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