1. 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;
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
Minamata Bay
n 1: 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