Minamata disease

Minamata disease, first diagnosed in 1956, was later linked to the consumption of seafood from the Minamata Bay on Japan’s southern main island of Kyushu, where Chisso dumped mercury compounds.

Fobister, who was exhibiting the first signs of Minamata disease, became chief and formed groups to stop the violence, even if it meant “getting physical” with enraged mobs of alcoholics.

"The issue is whether Japan, which has experienced Minamata disease, will do more than that."

The discrepancy stems from the diagnostic criteria the government has used to certify Minamata disease.

We have to remember that in Japan a small place like Minamata shattered the whole world by revealing Minamata disease.