> Twenty-two years after the suit was first filed in 1982, with 23 of the original plaintiffs already having passed away, the governments' responsibility had finally been established. It was a dramatic victory...
> An editorial in the Asahi shimbun ("The state found guilty of neglect of its duty," 16 October 2004) sums up the situation:

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Minamata: The Irresponsibility of the Japanese State

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"We don't think of Japan as an ATM", "Japan is not just some ATM." are not direct #Bushism

> ..the denial by a "Senior White House official" that the US president would ever think of Japan as "just some ATM machine" was so bizarre as to suggest that perhaps that might be precisely how he saw it.

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> #TakaoHishinuma, #EijiHirose, "US official says Japan 'not just some ATM'," #DailyYomiuri Online, 10 October 2003.

Koizumi's Japan in Bush's World: After 9/11

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