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.> The mercury poisoning “incident” in Minamata has been grandly pronounced resolved at least four times since the pollution began in 1932 and Minamata disease was officially recognized in 1956.2 In 1959 the Chisso Corporation paid compensation to fishing cooperatives and “sympathy payments” to patients that required them to renounce all future claims against the company. It did not accept responsibility for the disease. At the same time, it also installed a “Cyclator” to purify its wastewater, without announcing that the Cyclator did not remove mercury. At a ceremony at the end of 1959, Chisso’s president publicly drank a glass of water from the Cyclator, without announcing that the wastewater from the acetaldehyde plant, which contained mercury, was not being run through the Cyclator. An eerily similar performance took place on March 24, 2011 when Tokyo’s Governor Ishihara Shintarō drank a glass of tap water on national television to “prove” that it was safe from radioactive contamination. https://apjjf.org/2012/10/11/Timothy-S.-George/3715/article.html

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Fukushima in Light of Minamata

Fukushima in Light of Minamata Timothy S. George Abstract: The mercury discharged into the sea by the Chisso factory in Minamata, and the radiation released by the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power p

The Asia-Pacific Journal: Japan Focus
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> Earlier this year, a panel of independent scientists advising the Pacific Islands Forum – a regional bloc of 17 island nations – urged Japan to delay the release because the data did not sufficiently prove the discharge would be harmless.... Convincing the doubtful of the plan’s benefits, it seems, might need more than a livestream of some Fukushima fish.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/7/12/japan-turns-to-livestreamed-fish-in-fukushima-safety-campaign
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Japan turns to livestreamed fish in Fukushima safety campaign

Tokyo has embarked on a multi-million dollar campaign to convince people it’s safe to release radioactive water.

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