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FILE - In this 1973 photo, a woman holds a victim of &quot;Minamata Disease&quot;, or mercury poisoning, in Minamata, Japan. The girl has a malformed hand, like many victims of the disease who suffer from physical deformites among other symptoms. The Tokyo District Court has rejected a civil lawsuit demanding that tests into food toxicity and illnesses required by law be carried out for &quot;Minamata disease&quot; poisoning. Doctor Toshihide Tsuda, who sued, said Wednesday, Dec. 7, 2016, he would appeal the court's decision. (AP Photo, File)

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In this March 15, 2011, file photo, a child is screened for radiation exposure at a testing center in Koriyama city, Fukushima Prefecture, northeast of Tokyo, after a nuclear power plant on the coast of the prefecture was damaged by March 11 earthquake. A new study says children living near the Fukushima nuclear meltdowns have been diagnosed with thyroid cancer at a rate 20 to 50 times that of children elsewhere, a difference the authors contend undermines the government’s position that more cases have been discovered in the area only because of stringent monitoring. (AP Photo/Wally Santana, File)

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