Exhibit 197 · Government report
Annual Report on the Environment in Japan 2006: Fifty Years of Minamata Disease
The mass media reported that the equipment would purify wastewater, but it was not designed to remove mercury, failing to remove water-soluble methyl mercury compounds.
Describes ineffective wastewater equipment, delayed government action, and continuing victim claims.
- Source
- Ministry of the Environment, Japan
- Date
- 2006
- Quoted from
- Overview 2, Section 2 "Emergence and Expansion of Minamata Disease", p. 21 (parenthetical)
- Grade
- Primary record
- Document
- https://www.env.go.jp/content/900457263.pdf
- Accessed
- 2026-11-09
- Cited by
- Findings citing this exhibit