onjanuary 3rd, 1958, mayumi died.u it was caused by chisso, also chisso knew it was caused by waste water pumped into the bay by the factory. they tried to hide it. my second child is shinobu. she contracted the minamata disease in the womb. i didn't think it was possible. but three months after she was born, i noticed something was wrong with her. shinobu is now 59 years old. in 1959, chisso corporation offered some consolation money. human life cannot be replaced by money. fujie sakamoto remembering the terrible effects of industrial pollution. remember you can watch witness every month on the bbc news channel or you can catch up on all our films along with more than a thousand radio programmes in our online archive. just go to bbc.co.uk/witness. and next, when us forces dropped the world's first of atomic bomb onjapan at the end of the second world war, shintaro ohita was a young doctor in the japanese army. on the day the bomb fell he helped treat thousands of the injured. last night's target for the first atomic