Pollution trial

Japanese: 公害裁判 - こうがいさいばん

A lawsuit is filed by pollution victims seeking damages for tort against polluters and other related parties. There were cases before the war, but full-scale pollution lawsuits did not begin until the 1960s, when pollution became more serious. The four major pollution lawsuits - Itai-itai disease, Kumamoto Minamata disease, Niigata Minamata disease, and Yokkaichi asthma - are particularly famous, and all of them were won by the plaintiffs between 1971 and 1973 (a lawsuit regarding the government's responsibility for Minamata disease was still pending, but the government agreed to a settlement in 1995, effectively settling the case). Other notable lawsuits include the Osaka Airport Pollution Lawsuit, the US Air Force Base Pollution Lawsuit, the Shinkansen Pollution Lawsuit, and the Nishiyodogawa Air Pollution Lawsuit. →Basic Act on the Environment / Pollution Crimes / Pollution Dispute Resolution Act

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Japanese:

公害被害者が公害発生者その他の関係者に対して不法行為による損害賠償を求めて起こす裁判。戦前にも例はあるが，本格的な公害裁判は1960年代に入り公害が深刻化してからである。イタイイタイ病，熊本水俣病，新潟水俣病，四日市喘息(ぜんそく)の四大公害訴訟の裁判が特に有名で，1971年―1973年にいずれも原告勝訴となった（水俣病については国の責任に関する訴訟が係争中であったが，1995年に国が和解を受け入れ事実上決着した）。このほか大阪空港公害訴訟や米空軍基地の公害訴訟，新幹線公害訴訟，西淀川大気汚染訴訟などが有名。→環境基本法／公害罪／公害紛争処理法

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