Minamata

[Shinobu Sakamoto, Minamata Disease victim]

Minamata Disease patient supporters demonstrating

[Victims of Minamata Disease confront Chisso's President Shimada]

Tomoko in bath

Minamata, Japan: Mr. and Mrs. Ikeda [her helping him up]

Patients and relatives carry photographs of the "verified" dead on the last day of the Minamata trial

Tomoko Uemura at Central Pollution Board Meeting (Minamata patients at the Envionmental Disputes Coordination Commission)

A much more recent second outbreak of Minamata Disease broke out in Niigata prefecture in 1965. The case ended last September (1971) with the victory of the plaintiffs.