Journey through Time and Space with the Shin-Nihon Chisso Labor Union

Demonstration march along Koga Street

Date
Nov. 6, 1962
Sept. 10, 2014
Address
1 Koga-machi, Minamata City
  • 昔
  • 今
  • Members of the local branch of the Union and the Housewives Group marching along Koga Street. The leader carried a local flag with the words “Japanese Federation of Synthetic Chemistry Workers' Unions” and the initial character of “Koga”. Members of each branch went to mass meetings with their original local flag. The roadside gully was almost uncovered.
  • The present Koga street. The roadside gully is now covered with asphalt.
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.