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

A street in front of the east gate and the drainage ditch of Chisso

Date
Sept. 25, 1962
Jul. 26, 2014
Address
1 Sakae-machi, Minamata City
  • 昔
  • 今
  • The electricity pylons of Chisso and Minamata 2nd Elementary School. Fences made of something like barbed-wire can be seen between the road and the drainage ditch. Demonstrators were marching in front of the union headquarters.
  • The drainage ditch is now covered on the top. The ginkgo trees seem to have grown larger.
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.
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