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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.

but class-action lawsuits over Minamata disease and Niigata Minamata disease, two of Japan's four big pollution diseases, are ongoing, and resolution of the cases appears to be a long way off.

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.