Minamata, Japan was the site of one of the worst Mercury pollution disasters in history. The Chisso Corporation's chemical factory dumped their methylmercury wastewater into the Minamata Bay. The mercury, through the process of bioaccumulation, ended up in the top fish species, which the Minamata population ate for food. This resulted in thousands suffering from acute mercury poisoning. While many went through neurological breakdown, for years, neither the government nor the company did anything about it. Reparations and cleanup are still an ongoing process, several decades later.
The Minamata Disaster was the dumping of Methyl Mercury into Minamata bay by Chisso Co. Ltd. It caused fish to die, cats to develop stange behaviour and finally, Humans seemed to take on the same behaviour: not being able to walk properly, difficulty using their hands and many other symtoms. People begun to know this as th "Minamata Disease"
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The minamata bay disaster is referring to the minamata disease. This was caused by chemical waste dumped in Minamata bay by the Chisso company in Japan. This chemical waste contained methyl mercury which is highly dangerous. The fish in the bay ate this waste then it worked itself up the food chain until it eventually affected humans.
Siege of Minamata happened on 1581-09-16.
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Eleventh Hour - 2008 Minamata 1-14 is rated/received certificates of: Netherlands:12
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The danger of mercury in food is minamata disease which causes your whole body to change shape
Eleventh Hour - 2008 Minamata - 1.14 was released on: USA: 19 February 2009 Netherlands: 19 June 2009 France: 15 August 2009 Germany: 19 December 2009 Hungary: 30 December 2009
Eleventh Hour - 2008 Minamata 1-14 was released on: USA: 19 February 2009 Netherlands: 19 June 2009 France: 15 August 2009 Germany: 19 December 2009 Hungary: 30 December 2009
They spent around 1 million yen trying to clean the mess
Minamata disease was not named after the Mad Hatter; it was named after Minamata Bay in Japan, where the disease was first discovered in the 1950s due to mercury pollution. The Mad Hatter, from Lewis Carroll's "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland," was often depicted as suffering from mercury poisoning due to the use of mercury in hat-making during the 18th and 19th centuries.
The disease is characterized by peripheral sensory loss, tremors, dysarthria, ataxia, and both hearing and visual loss.
Minamata Kanja-san to sono sekai - 1971 was released on: Japan: 12 March 1971 Sweden: 23 February 1973 (TV premiere) USA: 19 September 1974 Portugal: 3 December 2007 (Nippon Koma Film Festival) Greece: 26 February 2008 (Ecocinema Festival)