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

The drainage ditch near the east gate of Chisso

Date
Sept. 25, 1962
Jul. 26, 2014
Address
Noguchi-cho, Minamata City
  • 昔
  • 今
  • Demonstrators marching in lines under the power transmission lines of Chisso. There was a big electricity pylon on the left.
  • The present drainage ditch, whose bottom surface is now half covered with concrete.
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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