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Japan industry fights 'Minamata' costs as mercury trade ban looms [1]

Japan's government lobbied hard for a global pact that limits mercury use and to name the resulting treaty after Minamata, the site of a homegrown industrial disaster from the 1950s when the toxic

Publication Date: 
26/08/2014
Reuters [2]
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Environment [3], Japan [4], Mercury [5], Heavy Metals [6], River Pollution [7], Water Pollution [8], Industry [9], Cement Industry [10]

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