Residents trying to leave from the Chisso-Taizan Dormitory
- Date
- Jul. 26, 1962
- Sept. 10, 2014
- Address
- 2-16-17 Jinnai, Minamata City
- Residents trying to leave from the Chisso-Taizan Dormitory. There are scuffles with picketers. The dormitory was built for unmarried college graduates from Tokyo and cities other than Minamata. Many of the residents gave up their strike and joined the second union (representing the strikebreakers). The members of the second union trapped in the dormitory tried to break the strike line and assembled at a rental office in Daikoku-cho. Some tried to leave by going across rice fields.
- A children’s center stands in the area that used to be rice fields surrounding the Chisso-Taizan Dormitory. Instead of the clamor heard during the labor movement, children’s voices now come from the center.
Reference sources
- The Edo Period:
The Picture Map of Ashikita-gun, Collection of Kumamoto Gakuen University Library, the late Edo Period. - The Meiji Period:
The Japanese National Atlas at the end of Edo Period and in the Meiji Period, Kashiwa Shobo, Collection of Kumamoto Gakuen University Library, 1983.
