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Noun: Minamata Bay
  1. A bay on the west coast of Kyushu; in the 1950s industrial wastes caused mercury poisoning among the Japanese people who ate fish from Minamata Bay

Type of: bay, embayment

Part of: Kyushu

Encyclopedia: Minamata Bay