A demonstration march around the city after a rally
- Date
- Aug. 12, 1962
- Sept. 22, 2014
- Address
- 1-1 Sakae-machi, Minamata City
- Demonstrators marching in front of the headquarters of Shin-Nihon Chisso Labor Union after a rally. The nearest were members of the Housewives Group. The headquarters can be seen on the right side, and Minamata 2nd Elementary School to the left of the demonstrators.
- The street where the demonstrators once marched is now quiet. The union dissolved when the last member retired in 2005, and then the headquarters was demolished to make space for a car park for Chisso. A vacant lot behind the utility pole on the right is the site where the headquarters used to be.
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.
