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  1. > Presiding Judge Yuki Tatsuno ordered that ¥2.75 million in damages be paid to each of the 128 people who sued the central government, the prefectural government of Kumamoto and chemical maker Chisso, which caused the pollution.
    - japantimes.co.jp/news/2023/09/
    #Japan #JapanTime #Chisso #Kumamoto #KumamotoPrefecture #Minamata

  2. Corporate Tradition:
    > .. at the end of 1959, #Chisso’s president publicly drank a glass of water from the Cyclator, without announcing that the wastewater from the acetaldehyde plant, which contained mercury, was not being run through the #Cyclator. An eerily similar performance took place on March 24, 2011 when Tokyo’s Governor #IshiharaShintarō drank a glass of tap water on national television..
    apjjf.org/2012/10/11/Timothy-S
    #TimGeorge #Minamata #FukushimaDaiIchi #KishidaFumio #SafetyPerformance