Some 1,400 people, however, are still waiting to receive official recognition as Minamata disease patients from Kumamoto and Kagoshima prefectures. Some 1,700 are involved in lawsuits against the ...

Niigata Minamata disease, often referred to as the “second Minamata disease,” was officially recognized in 1965, nine years after Minamata disease was first identified in Minamata, Kumamoto ...

The Kumamoto District Court has dismissed a damages lawsuit filed by 144 plaintiffs against the Japanese state and the prefectures where they lived plus Chisso Corp. over Minamata disease ...

MINAMATA, Kumamoto -- Some 670 people attended a memorial ceremony for victims of Minamata disease held in this southwest Japan city on May 1, the 68th anniversary of the globally known mercury ...