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Ashio copper mine pollution (1890s–1901)
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1890s–1901 — Waste from Japan’s largest copper mine poisons the Watarase river and the farms downstream. The politician Tanaka Shōzō leads the protests and in 1901 tries to petition the emperor directly. Remember the villages.
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- Industrialisation of Meiji Japan (chapter 10 of Industrial Revolution)
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- The Industrial Revolution, 1750–1914
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- Meiji Japan and post-Soviet Russia
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