YOKKAICHI POLLUTION AND ENVIRONMENTAL MUSEUM FOR FUTURE AWARENESS


Post-judgment Efforts 2604

Since the ruling on the Yokkaichi Air Pollution Lawsuit, various initiatives to commemorate the ruling have been held every five years.
In 1982, a meeting of local residents was held to review the ten years that had passed since the ruling.For the 20th anniversary, a team of environmental lawyers and local residents cooperated to publish a photograph collection, the Yokkaichi Air Pollution PhotographAlbum.In 2012, pollution victims, surviving family members and other local residents, as well as lawyers and people associated with corporates, the local government and the city assembly, cooperated under the guidance of Yokkaichi City and held a meeting to mark 40 years since the ruling.