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Minamata Mercury Poisoning
Category: Society & Culture
Duration: 00:08:59
Publish Date: 2015-02-11 02:50:00
Description: In the late 1950s thousands of people in the far south west of Japan were poisoned by industrial waste. A factory was pumping heavy metals into a river which led to the sea. Locals who ate fish and seafood from the surrounding area suffered all sorts of disabilities as a result. Fujie Sakamoto lost one daughter to what was being called 'Minamata disease', her second daughter was born severely disabled. Photo: Fujie Sakamoto today.
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