The Cabinet on Friday approved a measure to relieve unrecognized patients claiming to suffer from Minamata mercury poisoning that may cover more than 30,000 people who had been regarded as ineligible for financial assistance. The measure includes a lump-sum payment of 2.1 million yen per person to unrecognized sufferers who met certain criteria…Chemical maker Chisso Corp., which is responsible for the mercury poisoning in Kagoshima and Kumamoto prefectures, will pay 3.15 billion yen to three organizations of unrecognized patients in the two prefectures who have not joined the lawsuit…