Miike Mines
, also known as the , was the largest coal mine in Japan,Karan, P.P. & Stapleton, K.E. (1997) ''The Japanese city'p.181University Press of Kentucky Retrieved January 2012. located in the area of Ōmuta, Fukuoka and Arao, Kumamoto, Japan. In 1960, it was the setting for the "Miike Struggle," which was the largest management-labor dispute in Japanese history. History Mining began in the region during the Kyoho era, with the Miike mine under the control of the Tachibana clan. The mine was nationalised in 1872Industrial pollution in Japan
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