were born after 1969 or had never been diagnosed at a hospital for Minamata disease even though they displayed some of the symptoms, such as numbness and vision problems. The plaintiffs argued it ...

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 ...

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 ...