Title: Miike Coal Mine: Document of the 200-Day Fight
Miike: Nihyakunichi no tatakai no kiroku
Photographer(s): Hiroshi Kawashima
Writer(s): Haryu Ichiro
Designer(s): Takahashi Kinkichi
Publisher(s): Mai Shobo,Tokyo, Japan
Year: 1960
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Language(s): Japanese
Pages: 90
Size: 18 x 25,5 cm
Binding: Softcover
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Print: Chuetsu Insatsu Seishi Co., Tokyo, Japan
Nation(s) and year(s) of Protest: Japan,1959
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This book is a collection of photographs documenting the “Mitsui Miike Struggle” that erupted between 1959 and 1960. Coal, which had been a key industry supporting the backbone of the Japanese economy, gradually went into decline as postwar energy resources shifted to oil and imported coal with its high cost advantages increased. This led to restructuring at coal mines throughout Japan from the 1950s onward, and cutbacks and mass layoffs became widespread. Miike Coal Mine's rationalization was delayed and management deteriorated, partly due to the labor union's victory in a strike in 1953, leading to the outbreak of a struggle in 1959 when the company demanded a proposed workforce reduction of nearly 5,000 workers and the dismissal of more than 1,000 workers through nomination and dismissal.
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