Overview

• Try Group’s Try IT platform broadcast a video since 2016 falsely labeling Minamata disease as hereditary, accumulating over 70,000 views before it was removed in May.
• In June, executives including Daigo Kusunose formally apologized in Minamata and committed to organizing study sessions for accurate disease content.
• From August 3 to 4, 21 staff visited Minamata City’s municipal museum, the History Verification Museum, the Ministry of the Environment’s information center and fetal patient facilities to study the disease’s background.
• The company is drafting a 15- to 20-minute middle-school video curriculum that will weave survivor narratives, local archival resources and independent third-party review.
• Survivor groups have requested a public press briefing to disseminate corrected information, but Try Group has not yet scheduled such an event.