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

A Demonstration around the city

Date
Aug. 15, 1962
Jul. 28, 2014
Address
1-20 Saiwai-machi, Minamata City
  • 昔
  • 今
  • Demonstrators and members of the Housewives Group marching in front of a Tatami shop and a public bathhouse. On the left are people possibly related to the police who are watching the demonstration.
  • The Tatami shop still remains. A nursery school stands on the site where a fire department 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.
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