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The Chisso Corporation (チッソ株式会社, Chisso kabushiki kaisha), since 2012 reorganized as JNC (Japan New Chisso), [1] is a Japanese chemical company.It is an important supplier of liquid crystal used for LCDs, but is best known for its role in the 34-year-long pollution of the water supply in Minamata, Japan that led to thousands of deaths and victims of disease.
The Chisso factory and its wastewater routes. During the Kumadai investigation, the causal substance had been identified as a heavy metal and it was widely presumed that the Chisso factory was the source of the contamination. Chisso was coming under closer scrutiny and to deflect criticism, the wastewater output route was changed.
Map of Minamata Bay and the Chisso factory. Minamata Bay is a bay in the small factory town of Minamata on the west coast of Kyūshū island, located in Kumamoto Prefecture, Japan. [1] The bay is part of the larger Shiranui Sea which is sandwiched between the coast of the Kyūshū mainland and the off-lying islands of Kumamoto and Nagasaki ...
Minamata filmmaker Andrew Levitas tells the story about how Japanese people were ravaged by mercury poisoning resulting in distressing neurological symptoms, called Minamata Disease, but it ...
Hajime Hosokawa (細川 一, Hosokawa Hajime, 23 September 1901 – 13 October 1970) was director of the company hospital attached to the Chisso Corporation's chemical factory in Minamata, Kumamoto prefecture, Japan.
In the spring of 1966, the research team determined the most likely cause to the dumping of methylmercury from Showa Denko Corporation factory. [9] Showa Denko was located upstream on the Agano River and, just like the Chisso corporation, produced methylmercury as a by-product and then dumped it into the Agano river.
After this inspection Chisso admitted that fishing was impossible in some areas and made a final offer of JPY13 million (USD36,100). This paltry sum incensed the fishermen. Violence broke out, riot police were called and Nishida and other company employees were effectively held hostage in the factory building.
Litigation Group of the Mutual Aid Society files a lawsuit against Chisso in the Kumamoto District Court 1970: 4 July Hajime Hosokawa testifies from his deathbed about his cat experiments in the Litigation Group trial 27 May Arbitrated compensation agreement between Chisso and the Arbitration Group of the Mutual Aid Society 1971: 29 September