Japan widens relief for mercury disaster victims

Japan widens relief for mercury disaster victims
http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5gHgjoFQMnSXYXMQFjlgUjbco79xg

"Japan passed a law offering financial compensation to tens of thousands more victims of a mercury poisoning disaster in the 1950s blamed for generations of birth defects."