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    The Ashio Copper Mine (足尾銅山, Ashio Dōzan) was a copper mine located in the town of Ashio, Tochigi (now part of the city of Nikkō, Tochigi), in the northern...
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    health and livelihoods were negatively effected by pollution from the Ashio Copper Mine in the 1880s. Tanaka also contributed to philosophical thought on...
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    was merged into the expanded city of Nikkō. The Ashio Copper Mine was located in Ashio. This copper mine caused a major pollution problem in Japan at the...
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    specializing in electrical goods, chemicals and metals. He bought the Ashio copper mine from the Japanese government in 1877, which he later organized, with...
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  • Meiji period. One of the earliest cases was the copper poisoning caused by drainage from the Ashio Copper Mine in Tochigi Prefecture, beginning as early as...
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  • Kazuo [ja] (二村 一夫), published by University of Tokyo Press, about the Ashio copper mine riot of 1907 [ja]. It was originally written in Japanese, with the...
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    increased dramatically in the 1910s and 1920s, as was the case at the Ashio Copper Mine. Mining was interrupted during World War II due to gradual depletion...
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    Arahata wrote for numerous socialist publications; his account of the Ashio Copper Mine incident is considered a classic of Japanese journalism. In 1922,...
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  • Japan". www.mindat.org. "Ashio mine (Ashio copper mine), Ashio, Nikko City, Tochigi Prefecture, Japan". "Yaguki mine (Yakuki mine), Iwaki City, Fukushima...
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    The Ashio Railway Co. opened the line to Ashio-Motoyama (2 kilometres or 1.2 miles beyond Mato) in 1911–12[clarification needed] to service the Ashio Copper...
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    March 2006, Nikkō absorbed the neighboring city of Imaichi, the town of Ashio from Kamitsuga District, the town of Fujihara, and the village of Kuriyama...
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  • 1995 he founded the Ashio Green Growing Association, a non-profit organization that helps plant trees at the abandoned Ashio Copper Mine. Distant Thunder...
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    Meiji period, mine development was promoted under the policy of the Fengoku Robe (足尾銅山), and coal mining, Ashio Copper Mine, and Kamaishi Mine (釜石鉱山) with...
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  • disputes in a decade, with large-scale riots at Japan's two leading copper mines, Ashio and Besshi, which were only suppressed by the use of troops. None...
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    modern Japan's first industrial pollution cases involving Furukawa's Ashio Copper Mine. Uchimura's career as a journalist was cut short as well, largely...
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    Fossil - Occupy! Antamina mine Akyem mine Ashio Copper Mine 2000 Baia Mare Cyanide spill Bajo de la Alumbrera mine Chirano Gold Mine Famatina mining protests...
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    needed] Baron Furukawa was the owner of Furukawa zaibatsu which owned Ashio copper mine.[citation needed] The exterior of the building and the ground floor...
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    composing the Tomioka Nikki while living at the Furukawa Mine company house at the Ashio Copper Mine, where her son was a manager. It was published after...
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    that he intended to participate in the protests following the 1907 Ashio Copper Mine incident and his father's forbidding him to do so because part of...
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  • novel's setting was suggested to Sōseki by a man who worked in the Ashio Copper Mine following his own romantic problems. The man visited Sōseki and insisted...
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    ISSN 0027-0741. JSTOR 2384719. Pyle, Kenneth B. (1975). "Symposium: The Ashio Copper Mine Pollution Case: Introduction: Japan Faces Her Future". Journal of...
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    Japan in early December and spent the rest of the war working in the Ashio copper mines, after which they were repatriated to tell their story. On the evening...
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    Shed Dangerous Goods Shed and Freight Depot with freight platform. Ashio Copper Mine National Route 122 List of railway stations in Japan "沿革・歴史" [Company...
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    campaigner. A supporter of agrarian rights, he was involved in the Ashio Copper Mine Scandal, one of Japan's first environmental disputes. Tsuda also played...
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    Japan, on 5 December and, after further questioning, were sent to the Ashio copper mines for the duration of the war. Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal with eight...
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    the abolishment of poll taxes, sending an investigative team to the Ashio Copper Mine in wake of a lawsuit and scandal over an environmental disaster, and...
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    Ōfuna. The two men spent the last year of World War II working in the Ashio copper mines and survived to be repatriated by the Allies at the end of the war...
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  • Kanjū Katō, a labor organizer, arranged for her to speak to miners at Ashio copper mine. She was later granted a divorce from her first husband, Baron Ishimoto...
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    Tangible Cultural Property in 2009. Ashio Copper Mine is 5 minutes on foot from this station. former Ashio Town Hall Ashio Post Office National Route 122 List...
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    undertaken by the Tokugawa shogunate in the 17th and 18th centuries. Ashio Copper Mine 渡良瀬川の概要 | 国土交通省 関東地方整備局 渡良瀬川河川事務所 (Ministry of Land, Infrastructure...
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