NIIGATA – A district court has ordered the Niigata Municipal Government to officially recognize seven people as sufferers of the Minamata mercury-poisoning disease.
But the Niigata District Court also rejected the claims of two of the nine plaintiffs fighting for recognition over one of the country’s worst outbreaks of illness linked to industrial pollution.
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