Demonstrators heading for a police station in protest against the police
- Date
- Aug. 12, 1962
- Oct. 2, 2014
- Address
- 2-4-16 Tenjin-cho, Minamata City
- Demonstrators headed for a police station in protest against the police, making a long line. On August 12, 3,500 people attended a rally for families of union members in Minamata 2nd Elementary School to show their solidarity. In contract, the police often intervened in the dispute and several members of Shin-Nihon Chisso Labor Union were arrested around the east gate when they tried to prevent members of the second union from going back to work. .
- A nursery school stands in the area where demonstrators once marched in protest against the police station. Minamata-gawa river can be seen on the right.
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.
