Fukuoka / Izumi City / Minamata / Minamata City / /
Company
Kumamoto University Research Group / Shin Nippon Chisso Fertilizer Co. Ltd. / Chisso / Minamata Bay / NHK Data Collection Group / Matsuda / Russell / Kumamoto Prefectural Alliance / /
Country
Japan / United States / /
Currency
JPY / /
Event
Business Partnership / Product Issues / Person Travel / Person Communication and Meetings / Environmental Issue / /
Facility
Chisso plant / Minamata plant / Tokyo Institute of Technology / Kumamoto University / Institute of Public Health / Chisso Hospital / National Institute of Health Sciences / Chisso Minamata plant / Minamata plant of Shin Nippon Chisso Fertilizer Co. Ltd. / /
IndustryTerm
deposition management / chemical process use / chemical determinations / chemical industries / latter groups / accident compensation insurance / waste water management / finance / agricultural chemicals / mass media / heavy oil gasification / precise chemical / manufacturing procedure / chemical factories / /
NaturalFeature
Shiranui Sea / Minamata Bay / Minamata River / Galveston Bay / /
Organization
Takeharu Oshima / Kumamoto University / Lower House Committee on Agriculture / Forestry and Fisheries / Minamata Disease Patient’s Families Mutual Aid Society / Agricultural Cooperative Association / Food and Sanitation Investigation Committee / Family Association of Suikosha / Special Committee of Countermeasures Against Minamata Disease / Chisso and Japan Chemical Industry Association / Benefit Society / Institute of Health Sciences / Ministry of Home Affairs / Fishery Agency / Labor Union / Prefectural Government / Division of National Institutes of Health / Chisso Hospital / Minamata City Government / Shin Nippon Chisso Labor Union / Light Industries Bureau / Economic Planning Agency / Ministry of Agriculture / Light Metal Industries Bureau / Ministry of Health / Committee on Commerce and Industry / Kyushu University School of Medicine / National Institute of Health / Fisheries Agency / Technology Division / Lower House / City Assembly / Sanitation Investigation Committee / MITI / Screening Council for Minamata Disease Patients / PFF / Japan Chemical Industry Association / Kumamoto Prefectural Alliance of Fishing Cooperatives / Ministry of Construction / Management and Coordination Agency / Trade and Industry Bureau / Committee on Social and Labour Affairs / Institute of Public Health / Kumamoto Prefectural Assembly / Committee on Mediation for Fishery Disputes / Kumamoto University School of Medicine / Prefectural Assembly / T-I Minister’s Secretariat / Committee on Agriculture / Forestry and Fisheries / Tokyo Institute of Technology / Minamata City Assembly / /
Mayor / President / Governor and the Chairman / Chief / designer / Director of the Epidemiology / representative / assistant manager / Prefectural Governor / Governor / Governor agreed / Director / Hunter / Prefectural Governor and the Minamata Mayor / Director of the Epidemiology in the U.S. / /
Chapter 3. The Process of Investigation of the Cause of Minamata Disease and of Decision of the Pollutiion Source (Part 2) --Circumstances during the period from July 1959 when the organic mercury hypothesis reported by