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 1 | 3) Pollution from the Kamioka Mines |
| 2 | (3) Re-creation of Local Environment |
| 3 | (3) Regulation by Air Pollution Control Law (1968) |
| 4 | (1) The Soot and Smoke Regulation Law (1966) |
| 5 | 3) Itai-itai disease in court |
| 6 | Figure 3-9 Landfill and Dredging Process |
| 7 | (3) Introduction of Denitrifying Equipment |
| 8 | (5) Yokkaichi Pollution Lawsuit |
| 9 | (4) Environmental Impact Assessment (Pollution Pre-screening Committee) |
| 10 | 4) Countermeasures against abandoned shafts and waste heaps |
| 11 | Figure 3-4 Changes in Acetaldehyde Production, Mercury Discharge,
and Minamata Disease Cases |
| 12 | 1) Jinzu River |
| 13 | (4) Fact-finding Survey by Local Governments |
| 14 | (3) Air Pollution and Public Health Problems |
| 15 | (2) Financial Assistance for Chisso |
| 16 | (4) The Social and Economic Impact of Minamaa Disease |
| 17 | (1)Approaches of Enterprises at Early Stages |
| 18 | Table 3-2 Chronology of Control on Fishing Activities in Minamata Bay
by Fishermen's Cooperative Association |
| 19 | Figure 4-4 Year-on year change in cadmium concentration in the river
bed at dams along the Jinzu River |
| 20 | Figure 1-1 TOYAMA PREFECTURE |
| 21 | Table 3-4 Cost for Minamata Disease Control |
| 22 | (1) Yokkaichi Area Pollution Control Program |
| 23 | 5) Water purification in the Jinzu River water system |
| 24 | 3) Countermeasures against exhaust gas |
| 25 | Figure 3-2 Distribution of Officially-recognized Minamata
Disease Patients at Early Stages |
| 26 | Figure 3-6 Methylmercury Accumulation and lts Effect upon Human Body |
| 27 | Figure 4-2 Transition in waste water volume, cadmium concentration and
cadmium discharge at waste water gate |
| 28 | 2) Compensation for agricultural damage |
| 29 | (2) Marine Pollution and Smelly Fish |
| 30 | Figure 4-5 Year-on-year change in cadmium concentration in river water
of the Jinzu River |
| 31 | Figure 3-3 Acetaldehyde Manuracturing Process Using Mercury and
Mechanisum of Byproduct Organic Mercury Formation |
| 32 | (1) Remedial Responses at Early Stages |
| 33 | (5) Medical Aid by Yokkaichi City for the Relief of Pollution-related Patients (1964) |
| 34 | Figure 2-3 Distribution of Sulfur Oxides in Yokkaichi by District |
| 35 | Figure 3-7 The Process of Official Designation of Minamata Disease Patients |
| 36 | Table 3-3 Changes in Acetaldehyde Manufacturing Process Effluent Treatment |
| 37 | Figure 4-3 Year-on-year change in cadmium discharge volume in the
atmosphere |
| 38 | 1) Result of countermeasures at the pollution-generating source |
| 39 | (3) Damage Compensation and Remedial Responses for Fisheries |
| 40 | (2) Introduction or Desulfurizing Equipment |
| 41 | Figure 2-4 Changes in Sulfur Dioxide Concentration Associated
with the Use of Tall Smokestacks |
| 42 | (4) The Cause of the Disease and Governmental Opinion |
| 43 | Figure 1-3 Transition in production volume at the Kamioka Mines
following WWII |
| 44 | Figure 2-6 Sulfur Volume and Average Sulfur Content
of Heavy Oil for Domestic Consumption |
| 45 | (3) Pollution Control Agreement |
| 46 | 2) Mechanism behind the outbreak |
| 47 | (1) Conditions and 7tends of Methylmercury Compound Pollution |
| 48 | (4) Installation of Pollution Monitoring Network |
| 49 | Figure 2-2 Sulfur Dioxide Concentration in Isozu District
Obtained by Electric Conductivity Measurement |
| 50 | Figure 5-1 Transition in pollution prevention investment at the
Kamioka Mines |
| 51 | (1) Initiation of Chisso's Plant Operation |
| 52 | 2) History of Kamioka Mines |
| 53 | (2) Enactment of the Basic Law for Environmental Pollution Control (1967) |
| 54 | (3) Clinical Picture of Minamata Disease |
| 55 | (1) Bottom Sludge Treatment Program in Minamata Bay and Other Water Areas |
| 56 | (5) Administrative Measures by the National Government, Kumamoto prefecture, and Minamata City |
| 57 | Table 2-1 The Number of Pollution-related Patients as of 1967 |
| 58 | 1) Medical care relief |
| 59 | Table 4-1 Changes in cadmium concentration in river bed at Jinzu River dams |
| 60 | Figure 2-1 Yokkaichi Petrochemical Complexes |
| 61 | 3) Environmental restoration |
| 62 | (5) Establishment of the International Center for Environmental Technology Transfer |
| 63 | Table 2-2 Incidence of Chronic Occlusive Respiratory Organs Illness |
| 64 | 2) Economic and recovery costs |
| 65 | Figure 3-1 Geographical Background of Minamata City |
| 66 | (4) Introduction of the Areawide Total Pollutant Emission Regulation System ( 1972) |
| 67 | Table 3-1 Officially-recognized Minamata Disease Patients, 1969-1992 |
| 68 | (2) System for the Relief of Pollution-related Patients |
| 69 | 2) Countermeasures against pollution from waste water |
| 70 | Figure 2-7 Yearly Changes in SO2 Concentration in Yokkaichi Area |
| 71 | Figure 3-8 Pollution Control Program |
| 72 | (2) Effect of Methylmercury Compound on Human Health |
| 73 | Figure 2-8 Yearly Changes in Fuel Consumption and SOx Emission |
| 74 | Figure 2-1 Correlation between cadmium concentration in river water
and the river bed of the Jinzu River water system |
| 75 | Figure 4-1 Sedimentation Basin schematic |
| 76 | 1) Discover of the itai-itai disease |
| 77 | (4)Learning from the History of Minamata Disease |
| 78 | 1) System of countermeasures at the pollution-generating source |
| 79 | Figure 1-4 Transition in production volume at the Kamioka Mines
following the court ruling on the itai-itai disease |
| 80 | Figure 2-2 Relationship between cadmium exposure level and disease
severity |
| 81 | (4) Effluent Treatment by Chisso Minamata Plant |
| 82 | (3) Compensation of Minamata Disease Patients |
| 83 | Figure 1-2 Areas along the Jinzu River basin effected by mining pollution |
| 84 | Figure 2-5 Changes in the Number of Newly Recognized
Patients of Respiratory Diseases |
| 85 | (1) Japan's Industrial Policy and Construction of Petrochemical Complexes |
| 86 | Figure 3-5 Marine Products Contamination Trends |
| 87 | (2) Outset of Minamata Disease |
| 88 | (2) Minamata Disease Compensation Trials |
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