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    The Chisso Corporation (チッソ株式会社, Chisso kabushiki kaisha), since 2012 reorganized as JNC (Japan New Chisso), is a Japanese chemical company. It is an important...
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  • methylmercury in the industrial wastewater from a chemical factory owned by the Chisso Corporation, which continued from 1932 to 1968. It has also been suggested...
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  • in Minamata bay was then traced back to Chisso Corporation's dumping of methylmercury into Minamata Bay. Chisso Corporation produced acetaldehyde using...
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  • Renato Chisso (born 28 July 1954 in Quarto d'Altino) is an Italian politician from Veneto. A long-time member of the Italian Socialist Party, he joined...
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  • by industrial pollution linked to the activities of the chemical company Chisso. Armed with only his Minolta camera against a powerful company, Smith must...
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  • essay and book. As well, Smith was attacked and beaten by yakuza hired by Chisso, the polluting corporation. The striking nature of the photograph ensured...
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    by wastewater, mixed with mercury dumped into Hyakken Harbour from the Chisso Corporation's factory in Minamata, particularly by methylmercury. The highly...
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  • JNC may refer to: JNC Corporation, formerly Chisso, a Japanese chemical company Japan Nuclear Cycle Development Institute, a constituent of the Japan Atomic...
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  • In the years leading up to the outbreak of World War II in Europe in 1939, there was some significant collaborative development in heavy industry between...
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  • mercury contamination 29 August Mediated compensation agreement between Chisso and the Minamata Fishing Cooperative for damage to fishing 21 October Shin...
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    Busto Arsizio (Italian: [ˈbusto arˈsittsjo] ; Bustocco: Büsti Grandi) is a comune (municipality) in the south-easternmost part of the province of Varese...
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    pollution of the bay with mercury. From 1932 to 1968, the chemical company Chisso discharged effluent containing methyl mercury from their plant in Minamata...
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    pollution can also lead to congenital defects. Over a period of 37 years, the Chisso Corporation, a petrochemical and plastics company, contaminated the waters...
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    over management of one of its creditors the Chisso Corporation to prevent it from financial collapse. Chisso, built in the 1930s, dumped the methylmercury...
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    representatives of the Chisso trade unionists at Chiba, to ask why union workers were used by the company as bodyguards. The group was attacked by Chisso Company employees...
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  • disease compensation agreements of 1959 were agreed between the polluting Chisso company and representative groups of fishermen and Minamata disease patients...
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    sea was heavily polluted with mercury during the 1950s and 1960s from the Chisso Corporation's chemical factory in Minamata. This highly toxic chemical bioaccumulated...
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  • amounts of mercury released into the sea by a fertilizer factory owned by Chisso. It not only shows their current condition and the hardships borne by their...
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    9022 Chiba Bank 株式会社千葉銀行 Kabushiki-gaisha Chiba Ginkō TYO: 8331 Chisso チッソ株式会社 Chisso Kabushiki Kaisha Chiyoda Corporation 千代田化工建設株式会社 Chiyoda Kakō Kensetsu...
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    observed with Hg---O distances >2.5 Å. In 1932, the Japanese chemical company Chisso Corporation began using mercury sulfate as the catalyst for the production...
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    caused by the dumping of mercury compounds in Minamata Bay, Japan. The Chisso Corporation, a fertilizer and later petrochemical company, was found responsible...
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  • infamous case is related to Minamata disease (mercury poisoning), where the Chisso chemicals company managed to close a number of annual meetings within minutes...
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  • – 13 October 1970) was director of the company hospital attached to the Chisso Corporation's chemical factory in Minamata, Kumamoto prefecture, Japan....
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  • Works Massimo Giorgetti AN Minister of Environment and Transport Renato Chisso FI Minister of Culture and Venetian Identity Ermanno Serrajotto LV Minister...
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  • Kumamoto - Nippon Paper Industries Co., Ltd. Yashiro Minamata, Kumamoto - Chisso Nagasu, Kumamoto - Japan Marine United Corporation Nakatsu, Oita - Daihatsu...
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  • investigate the original outbreak) and Dr. Hajime Hosokawa (the former Chisso hospital director) brought their significant experience from Minamata and...
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  • applicable to Merck KGaA as well as its competitors JNC Corporation (formerly Chisso Corporation) and DIC (formerly Dainippon Ink & Chemicals). All three manufacturers...
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    Mount Aso and Amakusa became sightseeing destinations. The Chisso Corporation (チッソ株式会社, Chisso kabushiki kaisha) started a factory in Minamata city in 1908...
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    occupation after World War II, and its successor companies include the Chisso Corporation, and portions of Asahi Kasei, Sekisui Chemical Company, and...
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    investigation began. Fishing was officially banned in 1957. It was found that the Chisso Corporation, a petrochemical company and maker of plastics such as vinyl...
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