"Justice denied is justice delayed"
This was the case in the bay of one of the most advanced country in the world renowned for its robots amd technology this archipelago had earned a name for its game from giving a iron fist to USA during world war 2 to making android robots the countrys name is japan.
In the recent times covid 19 was not able to cause a severe impact in Japan but this man made disease or disaster we are going to talk about had impacted Japan to such a extent that it is considered two of the four big pollution diseases of Japan.Two because it hit Japan twice first in the year 1956 second in 1965 and both were equally a mayhem.
Minamata disease or chisso minamata disease was caused by severe methyl mercury poisoning like its successor niigata minamata disease.It led to severe neurological disorders like ataxia(lack of muscle coordination),muscle weakness,loss of vision and damage to hearing and voice and in extreme cases,coma,paralysis and madness.This toxic chemical was collected in shellfish and various fishes in Minamata Bay and Shiranui sea which was ironically consumed by the unaware locals resulted in this disease.
Apart from humans dogs pigs could also not escape cats suffered from "dancing cat fever".These continued from 36 years without being noticed by the authorities and the Chisso corporation responsible for this mayhem paid a compensation of 86million USD by 2004 to clean the mess.
The second outbreak happened in Niigata prefecture(*territory)and the causes,spreaders and syntoms were all same except that this toxic chemical was released into the Agano River from the Showa Electrical Company's chemical plant in kanose village The chemical entered the food of local people through the contaminated fishes.The company rejected accusations of being the culprit because Niigata had suffered a earthquake in 1964 which might have led to a "agricultural chemical run off".At the end millions of Japanese Yen was paid by the company as compensation.
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