Escaping dormitory residents
- Date
- Jul. 27, 1962
- Sept. 10, 2014
- Address
- 2-1-23 Jinnai, Minamata City
- Rice fields and a police station near the Chisso-Taizan Dormitory. People were running away along the paths between rice fields or even across the fields. From July 26 through 27, 350 members got together at the second union office from Yahata 5th Apartment, Taizan Dormitory, and Shiroyama Dormitory.
- Rice fields surrounding the site of Chisso-Taizan Dormitory. A general hospital can be seen in the back.
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.
