Word: minamata
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Dates: during 1971-1971
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...families of the Minamata victims have engaged in demonstrations and sit-ins that have captured the attention of the Japanese public. Recently, in the absence of government intervention, they began a drive to buy control of the offending company's stocks in a final desperate attempt to end the poisoning...
...fishing town of Minamata, mercury poisoning has killed 46 villagers and paralyzed or blinded more than 70 during the past two decades--yet the Nippon Nitrogen Company continues to discharge its mercury wastes into the bay. The government has mirrored the company's indifference. Japan's Economic Planning Agency suppressed a report which demonstrated that the plant's effluents are lethal...