Undermining the Japanese miracle: work and conflict in a coalmining community
Undermining the Japanese Miracle describes the underside of Japan's economic miracle. It is an account of people who have been forgotten in Japan's push to industrialise in the post-war era: the coalminers of Chikuho, on Japan's southernmost island. The dirty and neglected character o...
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| Summary: | Undermining the Japanese Miracle describes the underside of Japan's economic miracle. It is an account of people who have been forgotten in Japan's push to industrialise in the post-war era: the coalminers of Chikuho, on Japan's southernmost island. The dirty and neglected character of Chikuho is in stark and revealing contrast to Japan's prevailing image as an international leader in technology and an affluent country of great social harmony. In effect, the people of Chikuho have been sacrificed for the development of Japan's overall economy. This book looks at some of the effects of economic rationalist policies: the neglect of the former coalminers by the government and the coal companies has created a situation whereby the region is poor and isolated, and the unemployment, crime and welfare dependence rates are high. There is little hope of economic recovery in this coalmining area. Matthew Allen challenges the concepts of industrial harmony, economic foresight, cultural homogeneity and caring political management that dominate much of the literature in Japan. He describes how the people of the coalfields see themselves, providing insights into an aspect of Japanese society that is rarely encountered. |
| Physical Description: | XVIII, 290 S. graph. Darst., Kt. |
| ISBN: | 0521450098 |
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| adam_text | Contents
List of Plates ix
List of Maps x
List of Figures x
Acknowledgements xi
Glossary xii
List of abbreviations xvi
Notes on translation and anonymity xvi
Introduction 1
Alternative views of history 2
Isolation, powerlessness and dependence 4
The emergence of labour conflict 5
The revivalists 6
Welfare in Chikuho 8
Methodology 9
Notes to Introduction 10
1 Chikuho: A Short Description 12
Tagawa City 16
Tagawa s local economy 18
Tagawa gun and Kawasaki 19
Welfare 21
Crime 23
Tagawa ben 26
Notes to Chapter 1 28
2 The Chikuho Revivalists 29
The official view 32
The coal museums 34
The Tagawa museum 35
The Nogata museum 37
The Kurate museum 38
Meeting Idegawa 39
The Tokyo students connection 45
The Chikuho connection 47
Notes to Chapter 2 49
v
vi CONTENTS
3 Idegawa 51
4 A Short History of Coalmining: Chikuho in Context 54
Prior to the Second World War: The discovery and
use of coal 54
The boom after the Second World War 57
The Korean War 59
The decline and rationalisation of the coal industry 62
Scrap and Build 65
Divine prosperity and new industry problems 67
Scrapped, but not rebuilt 68
Labour unrest—M san Miike 69
M san Miike and popular support 72
A temporary truce: the government sells out 73
Chikuho and the series of Temporary Coal
Rationalisation Bills 77
Further attempts to salvage the industry 82
Responses to the unemployment problem 86
Conclusion 92
Notes to Chapter 4 94
5 The Picture Show Man 97
The kami shibai man 99
The kami shibai tradition 100
Origins of the kami shibai in Chikuho 101
Oguchi and his personal cause 102
Notes to Chapter 5 105
6 A Culture of Violence 106
Violence in the mines 107
The romu kakari (labour overseers) 109
A rationale of violence 110
Violence and structural constraints 113
More discriminating use of violence? 116
Notes to Chapter 6 122
7 H san Mine: Violence and Repression 124
Background to the accident 125
The newspaper accounts 126
Cement the dead 142
Violence and repression in H san—more context 144
Work at H san 145
Union compromises 147
Conclusion 149
Notes to Chapter 7 151
8 The Bathing Master 153
9 Labour Conflict: The Case of the K san Union Action 158
CONTENTS vii
Union types 160
Company background 163
The Spring Offensive 165
The no.2 union 166
Working conditions 166
The 101 day strike and intra union conflict 167
Gangster violence and union friction 168
Breaking the strike 170
Management and labour policies 172
Notes to Chapter 9 178
10 D san and the Students 181
Management and yakuza relations 182
The 1962 strike 185
Violence as legal defence 188
Notes to chapter 10 191
11 Mizuno 192
12 The Y san Disaster 195
Historical background 196
Working conditions in Y san mine 198
A critical view of the mine operations 198
The accident 201
The process of litigation and offers from the company 204
The stocking company ploy 206
Outsiders involvement 207
Settlement 209
H san and Y san compared 210
Analysis 214
The Y san case and the development of
local consciousness 217
Notes to Chapter 12 219
13 Sono 220
14 Welfare 224
A brief history of welfare 225
Decline of welfare 229
Notes to Chapter 14 233
15 Welfare in Chikuho 234
Distribution of welfare 235
The problem areas 236
Suzuki 241
The Hari family 241
The interviews 243
The caseworkers 245
Welfare, the Kawasaki work ethos and the yakuza 249
viii CONTENTS
Searching for work 251
Discussion 252
Conclusion 254
Notes to Chapter 15 257
16 A Yakuza Story 258
Conclusion 263
The revivalists 266
Welfare, poverty, the coalminers and Chikuho 269
Revival? 271
Bibliographical Essay 273
Bibliography 278
List of Informants 286
Index 288
I
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List of Plates
Following page 152
1 View of M san Ita coal village
2 Exterior of author s accomodation
3 Interior of author s accommodation
4 The old miners baths
5 The annual weed clearing day
6 Old and new housing
7 Mt Asahi
8 Idegawa
9 One of the informants, a story teller
10 Two informants
11 Informants pose for a post dance photograph
12 The memorial at H san mine
13 The collapsed bridgehead
14 The cemented H san mine entrance
15 The H san improved accommodation
16 Ishizaki and friend in front of the Y san memorial
17 The Y san women s accommodation
18 The Kawasaki annual Bon Odori Taikai
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List of Maps
1 Japan and Kyushu xvii
2 Fukuoka prefecture and Chikuho region xviii
List of Figures
1 Tagawa City population movement 59
2 Chikuho population movement 60
3 Chikuho coal production 61
4 Coalminers in Chikuho 64
5 Retrenched miners 74
6 TCRB mine closures 75
7 Chikuho industry 1955 76
8 Chikuho industry 1965 76
9 Chikuho industry 1970 77
10 Chikuho unemployed statistics 79
lla Fukuoka prefecture mines situation 80
lib Fukuoka prefecture miners situation 81
12 Chikuho mining deaths 82
13 Miike mine accidents—deaths 84
14 M san Miike mine accidents—injuries 85
15 H san accident site 133
| 16 H san—rescue work progress 140
I 17 Fukuoka prefecture welfare 237
! 18 Average monthly household income 240
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| spelling | Allen, Matthew F. Verfasser aut Undermining the Japanese miracle work and conflict in a coalmining community Matthew Allen 1. publ. Cambridge u.a. Cambridge Univ. Press 1994 XVIII, 290 S. graph. Darst., Kt. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Undermining the Japanese Miracle describes the underside of Japan's economic miracle. It is an account of people who have been forgotten in Japan's push to industrialise in the post-war era: the coalminers of Chikuho, on Japan's southernmost island. The dirty and neglected character of Chikuho is in stark and revealing contrast to Japan's prevailing image as an international leader in technology and an affluent country of great social harmony. In effect, the people of Chikuho have been sacrificed for the development of Japan's overall economy. This book looks at some of the effects of economic rationalist policies: the neglect of the former coalminers by the government and the coal companies has created a situation whereby the region is poor and isolated, and the unemployment, crime and welfare dependence rates are high. There is little hope of economic recovery in this coalmining area. Matthew Allen challenges the concepts of industrial harmony, economic foresight, cultural homogeneity and caring political management that dominate much of the literature in Japan. He describes how the people of the coalfields see themselves, providing insights into an aspect of Japanese society that is rarely encountered. Geschichte 1987-1992 gnd rswk-swf Arbeidsomstandigheden gtt Charbon - Mines et extraction - Japon - Kyūshū ram Mijnbouw gtt Mijnwerkers gtt Mineurs de charbon - Japon - Kyushu ram Alltag, Brauchtum Wirtschaft Coal mines and mining Japan Chikuho-machi Arbeitsbedingungen (DE-588)4002641-3 gnd rswk-swf Kohlenbergbau (DE-588)4031646-4 gnd rswk-swf Chikuho machi, Japón - Condiciones económicas Chikuho machi, Japón - Condiciones sociales Chikuho machi, Japón - Vida social y costumbres Kyūshū (Japon) - Conditions sociales ram Kyūshū (Japon) - Conditions économiques ram Kyūshū (Japon) - Moeurs et coutumes ram Chikuho-machi (Japan) Economic conditions Chikuho-machi (Japan) Social conditions Chikuho-machi (Japan) Social life and customs Japan (DE-588)4028495-5 gnd rswk-swf Chikuho (DE-588)4378661-3 gnd rswk-swf Japan (DE-588)4028495-5 g Kohlenbergbau (DE-588)4031646-4 s Geschichte 1987-1992 z DE-604 Chikuho (DE-588)4378661-3 g Arbeitsbedingungen (DE-588)4002641-3 s HBZ Datenaustausch application/pdf http://bvbr.bib-bvb.de:8991/F?func=service&doc_library=BVB01&local_base=BVB01&doc_number=006692287&sequence=000002&line_number=0001&func_code=DB_RECORDS&service_type=MEDIA Inhaltsverzeichnis |
| spellingShingle | Allen, Matthew F. Undermining the Japanese miracle work and conflict in a coalmining community Arbeidsomstandigheden gtt Charbon - Mines et extraction - Japon - Kyūshū ram Mijnbouw gtt Mijnwerkers gtt Mineurs de charbon - Japon - Kyushu ram Alltag, Brauchtum Wirtschaft Coal mines and mining Japan Chikuho-machi Arbeitsbedingungen (DE-588)4002641-3 gnd Kohlenbergbau (DE-588)4031646-4 gnd |
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| title | Undermining the Japanese miracle work and conflict in a coalmining community |
| title_auth | Undermining the Japanese miracle work and conflict in a coalmining community |
| title_exact_search | Undermining the Japanese miracle work and conflict in a coalmining community |
| title_full | Undermining the Japanese miracle work and conflict in a coalmining community Matthew Allen |
| title_fullStr | Undermining the Japanese miracle work and conflict in a coalmining community Matthew Allen |
| title_full_unstemmed | Undermining the Japanese miracle work and conflict in a coalmining community Matthew Allen |
| title_short | Undermining the Japanese miracle |
| title_sort | undermining the japanese miracle work and conflict in a coalmining community |
| title_sub | work and conflict in a coalmining community |
| topic | Arbeidsomstandigheden gtt Charbon - Mines et extraction - Japon - Kyūshū ram Mijnbouw gtt Mijnwerkers gtt Mineurs de charbon - Japon - Kyushu ram Alltag, Brauchtum Wirtschaft Coal mines and mining Japan Chikuho-machi Arbeitsbedingungen (DE-588)4002641-3 gnd Kohlenbergbau (DE-588)4031646-4 gnd |
| topic_facet | Arbeidsomstandigheden Charbon - Mines et extraction - Japon - Kyūshū Mijnbouw Mijnwerkers Mineurs de charbon - Japon - Kyushu Alltag, Brauchtum Wirtschaft Coal mines and mining Japan Chikuho-machi Arbeitsbedingungen Kohlenbergbau Chikuho machi, Japón - Condiciones económicas Chikuho machi, Japón - Condiciones sociales Chikuho machi, Japón - Vida social y costumbres Kyūshū (Japon) - Conditions sociales Kyūshū (Japon) - Conditions économiques Kyūshū (Japon) - Moeurs et coutumes Chikuho-machi (Japan) Economic conditions Chikuho-machi (Japan) Social conditions Chikuho-machi (Japan) Social life and customs Japan Chikuho |
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