Minamata Mercury Poisoning

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Recorded11 Feb 2015

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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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