By Elizabeth Batt Digital Journal Jan 29, 201

Minamata - Sufferers of Minamata disease not yet certified with the illness, are still awaiting relief measures decades after a company dumped an estimated 27 tons of mercury compounds into Minamata Bay.

Note: Here in Canada, residents of Grassy Narrows and other First Nations communities were poisoned and are still fighting for justice - First Nation Mercury Survivors Visit Japanese Mercury Experts