Upon reflection, she said that symptoms of Minamata disease appeared when she was in elementary school. She experienced severe pain in her leg muscles when she was sleeping and could only go back ...

In 1968, the central government finally recognized Minamata disease as caused by industrial ... by doctors and other experts have detected symptoms similar to those of recognized patients even ...

Under Japan's Minamata disease special relief law that went into ... The government argued that symptoms should have appeared by 1973, five years after Chisso ceased discharging wastewater ...

The symptoms included severe neurological damage ... A well-documented case of mercury poisoning is the Minamata disease outbreak in Japan in the 1950s and 1960s. Industrial discharge containing ...