The Town Poisoned By Its Own Factory #japanhistory #corporategreed #badbusiness

In 1950s Minamata, Japan, something terrifying began happening. Cats behaved strangely. Fish floated to the surface. Then people began losing coordination, struggling to speak and suffering severe neurological symptoms. The culprit wasn’t a mysterious disease. It was methylmercury accumulating in seafood after industrial wastewater from the Chisso chemical factory contaminated the surrounding waters. And perhaps the most disturbing part? Evidence linking the factory’s wastewater to the disease emerged years before the pollution finally stopped. This is the story of Minamata disease—one of Japan’s most infamous industrial pollution disasters. In this video: Minamata disease, Minamata Japan, mercury poisoning Japan, Chisso Corporation, Minamata Bay disaster, methylmercury poisoning, Japanese history, industrial disasters, environmental disasters, corporate pollution, strange history, dark history, historical disasters #Minamata #MinamataDisease #JapaneseHistory #EnvironmentalHistory #IndustrialDisaster #DarkHistory #StrangeHistory #historyshorts #corporatescandal #poisoned