minamata bay

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   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

   Broaderbay

   Part ofKyushu

Questions about minamata bay

What does minamata bay mean?

minamata bay means "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".

Is minamata bay a common word?

minamata bay is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.