Meiji Japan and post-Soviet Russia · SITE OF MEMORY ·
Ashio copper mine pollution (1880s–1900s)
On the Meiji Japan and post-Soviet Russia map as “Ashio”
1880s–1900s — Japan’s largest copper mine poisons the Watarase River and the farmland downstream. The Diet member Tanaka Shōzō gave up his seat and spent the rest of his life campaigning for the farmers, even trying to hand a petition to the emperor in 1901.
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- Meiji Constitution and modernisation (chapter 5 of Meiji Japan and post-Soviet Russia)
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- Remaking the State: Meiji Japan 1600–1912 and Post-Soviet Russia 1964–2000
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