Minamata patients speak out on anniversary of disease

Sunday marks 60 years since doctors in Japan discovered a neurological disease in the town of Minamata, caused by one of the world’s worst cases of toxic dumping.

In 1932, the Chisso Corporation, an integral part of the local economy for over a century, began to manufacture acetaldehyde, used to produce plastics, in their chemical plant in Minamata.