A citizens' group representing victims of Minamata disease spread a banner denouncing the passeage by the Diet of a bill offering financial relief to more sufferers of the mercury poisoning during a demonstration in Tokyo on Wednesday, July 8, 2009. The bill is expected to cover about 20,000 of some 30,000 people, mainly in Kumamoto and Kagoshima prefectures, who are seeking recognition as Minamata (Photo by Yosuke Tanaka/AFLO/mis) [1122].

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