Abe angers Minamata disease sufferers

MINAMATA, Japan - Prime Minister Shinzo Abe (on screen) speaks in a video message sent to an international environmental conference in the southwestern Japan city of Minamata in Kumamoto Prefecture on Oct. 9, 2013. Abe's remarks that Japan has overcome the damage from mercury poisoning in the 1950s and 1960s angered some of those still suffering from the Minamata mercury-poisoning disease.

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