Q2Minimata



Question 1 || || ** minamata disease ** What chemical were invoved? || Over 3,000 victims have been recognized as having "Minamata  Disease". It has taken some of these people over thirty years to  Receive compensation for this inconceivable event. In 1993, nearly Forty years later, the Japanese courts were still resolving Suitable compensation for the victims. Many people have lost their Lives, suffered from physical deformities, or have had to live with The physical and emotional pain of "Minamata Disease". This Suffering is all a result of the very wrongful and negligent acts Of the Chisso Corporation who dumped mercury into the sea water and Poisoned the people of Japan. Minamata is a small factory town dominated by the Chisso <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Adobe Fan Heiti Std B','sans-serif'; font-size: 19px;">Corporation. The town faces the Shiranui Sea, and Minamata Bay is  <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Adobe Fan Heiti Std B','sans-serif'; font-size: 19px;">Part of this sea. In Japanese, "Chisso" means nitrogen. The <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Adobe Fan Heiti Std B','sans-serif'; font-size: 19px;">Chisso Corporation was once a fertilizer and carbicle company, and <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Adobe Fan Heiti Std B','sans-serif'; font-size: 19px;">Gradually advanced to a petrochemical and plastic-maker company. <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Adobe Fan Heiti Std B','sans-serif'; font-size: 19px;">From 1932 to 1968, Chisso Corporation, a company located in  <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Adobe Fan Heiti Std B','sans-serif'; font-size: 19px;">Kumamoto Japan, dumped an estimated 27 tons of mercury compounds <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Adobe Fan Heiti Std B','sans-serif'; font-size: 19px;">Into Minamata Bay. Kumamoto is a small town about 570 miles <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Adobe Fan Heiti Std B','sans-serif'; font-size: 19px;">Southwest of Tokyo. The town consists of mostly farmers and <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Adobe Fan Heiti Std B','sans-serif'; font-size: 19px;">Fisherman. When Chisso Corporation dumped this massive amount of  <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Adobe Fan Heiti Std B','sans-serif'; font-size: 19px;">Mercury into the bay, thousands of people whose normal diet <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Adobe Fan Heiti Std B','sans-serif'; font-size: 19px;">Included fish from the bay, unexpectedly developed symptoms of  <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Adobe Fan Heiti Std B','sans-serif'; font-size: 19px;">Methyl mercury poisoning. The illness became known as the <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Adobe Fan Heiti Std B','sans-serif'; font-size: 19px;">"Minamata Disease". The mercury poisoning resulted from years of  <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Adobe Fan Heiti Std B','sans-serif'; font-size: 19px;">Environmental destruction and neglect from Chisso Corporation. <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Adobe Fan Heiti Std B','sans-serif'; font-size: 19px;">In 1907 the villagers of Minamata convinced the founder of Chisso <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Adobe Fan Heiti Std B','sans-serif'; font-size: 19px;">Corporation to build a factory in their town, hoping to benefit <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Adobe Fan Heiti Std B','sans-serif'; font-size: 19px;">From the wealth of industrialization. The owner, Jun Noguchi <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Adobe Fan Heiti Std B','sans-serif'; font-size: 19px;">Agreed to the development, but used the people from Minamata as  <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Adobe Fan Heiti Std B','sans-serif'; font-size: 19px;">Simple factory workers the more elite positions, such as engineers
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