Are the Japanese aware that they are poisoning themselves? For thirty-six years beginning in 1932, the Chisso Corporation dumped an estimated 27 tons of mercury compounds into Minamata Bay — a bay on the west coast of Kyushu island, located in Kumamoto Prefecture, Japan. For its local residents who relied heavily on fishing in the area, it was an unmitigated disaster. “The outcome was tragic: a whole town was both literally and figuratively poisoned,” writes the University of Minnesota. dolphinproject.net/blog/post/the-dangers-of-eating-dolphin-meat/
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