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In 1956, in Minamata City, located along the Yatsushiro Sea coast in Kumamoto Prefecture, the first Minamata disease patient was reported initially as suffering from nervous symptoms of the unknown cause.

In 1965, another similar epidemic-Minamata disease patients were reported in the Agano River basin in Niigata Prefecture.