Abstract
Coal is mainly consumed in the coastal areas, including areas in central Japan. Most ports involved in coal delivery and discharge in contemporary Japan are located along the maritime coastal areas. Tagawa and the rest of the Chikuho region produced the largest amount of coal for Japan. Chikuho is also a useful case study of internal waterway use to transport coal resources in Japan. In this chapter, I concentrate on observation fieldwork and library research on the history of the Tagawa coal mines in the Chikuho region in Kyushu in order to yield data and information for further research. Tagawa is located near the centre of the historical Chikuho coal mining region. I visited Tagawa and Iizuka for fieldwork and recorded their gentrification in the post-coal mining era.
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Naoki Kusuhara, Shuhei Konno and Hisayoshi Takani, “The Distribution of Coal in Japan—The Flows of Coal in Marine Transportation with Special References to the Hinterland of Tokyo Port,” Science Reports of the Tohoku University 7 (1966): 129–46, at p. 129. http://ir.library.tohoku.ac.jp/re/bitstream/10097/44879/1/AA0045945066171.pdf, viewed 12 June 2012.
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Kusuhara, Konno and Takani, “The Distribution of Coal in Japan,” p.130.
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Kinoshita, Kishiro, Tankouno rekishi (Meibunsha insatsu kabushikigaisha), 1973, p. 87.
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Kinoshita, Kishiro, Tankouno rekishi (Meibunsha insatsu kabushikigaisha), 1973, pp. 87–88.
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Kinoshita, Kishiro, Tankouno rekishi (Meibunsha insatsu kabushikigaisha), 1973, p. 89.
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Kinoshita, Kishiro, Tankouno rekishi (Meibunsha insatsu kabushikigaisha), 1973, p. 89.
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Fukuoka Prefecture Tourist Information, “Take in the events and festivals of the Kahan Area” dated 2011 in the Fukuoka Prefecture Tourist Information Cross Road Fukuoka website [downloaded on 3 March 2013], (Japan: Fukuoka Prefecture Tourist Information). available at http://www.crossroadfukuoka.jp/chikuhou/en/contents/kahan/event/
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Kinoshita, Kishiro, Tankouno rekishi (Meibunsha insatsu kabushikigaisha), 1973, pp. 89 and 91–92.
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Murakushi, Nisaburo, “Coal Mining Introduction” in the IDE Jetro website [downloaded on 3 March 2013], available at http://www.ide.go.jp/English/Publish/Periodicals/De/pdf/79_04_05.pdf, pp. 474–475. 1891 was an important year for the railway industry because the railway tracks also connected with the Omuta Miike coal mines.
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Kinoshita, Kishiro, Tankouno rekishi (Meibunsha insatsu kabushikigaisha), 1973, p. 94.
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Allen, Matthew, Undermining the Japanese Miracle: Work and Conflict in a Japanese Coal (UK: Cambridge University Press), 2009, pp. 13–14.
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City of Tagawa, “Sakubei Yamamoto” dated 2011 in the Sakubei Yamamoto website [downloaded on 4 March 2013], available at http://www.y-sakubei.com/english/sakubei/index.html
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Lim, T.W. (2017). Coal Delivery in Japan. In: Energy Transitions in Japan and China. Palgrave Macmillan, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-1681-3_6
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