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Hashimi History
Hashimi Japan's industrial history, symbolized by a dark era. In the near Takashima szénbányáit been revealed in 1869, but the production was very slow and inefficient. Scottish merchant Thomas Glover attempted profitable, modern mines changed. The 19th century, foreigners could not acquire land ownership in Japan, so the owner of the island caught in a joint venture. The initial production was slow enough, and Glover, overseas investors were impatient. The mines have been closed down for a while. In 1881, an entrepreneur, Iwasaki Yataro bought the mine reopened and hired Glover to pay attention to the works, and later he was named the Mitsubishi company has. Four years later, researchers have discovered a huge coal deposits in the seabed Hashimi. In 1885, again opened the mine and the miners for dwellings, churches, schools, and even brothel is open. The coal production peaked in 1941, 411,100 tonnes per year. The initial Japanese war Chinese miners and Korean prisoners of war were replaced with those who were virtually slave labor (the Japanese war machine Mitshubishi factories producing nations was 34% in the number of foreign workers). The laborers worked and lived in terrible conditions, he was almost never saw the light of day, every day was a cruel, little things are also removed at death. Although the falsified official documents in Japan ca. 40 thousand Chinese slaves used between 1943-45. In 1959, the 5,259 islands Hashimi its inhabitants the most densely populated in the world. The terrible conditions in the oil actually ended with the appearance in 1970, coal mining became unprofitable and closed. In 1974, everyone kiköltöztettek the island. The island bar "grateful" photographic subject, can not be visited.
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