Miike coal mine

Miike coal mine
UNESCO World Heritage Site
	Miyanohara Pit of Miike Coal Mine
Location	Japan
Criteria	Cultural: (ii), (iv)
Reference	1484
Inscription	2015 (39th Session)

Miike Coal Mine
三池炭鉱
	Miike Coal Mine
Location
	Miike Coal Mine; 三池炭鉱
Location	Ōmuta, Fukuoka
Country	Japan
Coordinates	33°00′49″N 130°27′22″E / 33.01361°N 130.45611°E
Production
Products	Coal
Location
UNESCO World Heritage Site
	Miyanohara Pit of Miike Coal Mine
Location	Japan
Criteria	Cultural: (ii), (iv)
Reference	1484
Inscription	2015 (39th Session)

Miyahara Pit is one of the main mines in the Mitsui Miike Coal Mine from the late Meiji period to the early Showa period. The hoisting machine room (brick building) of the second shaft constructed in 1901 (Meiji 34) and the vertical shaft turret (made of total steel) are left in perfect condition and designated as an important cultural property and historic site of the country.

Miike coal mine (三池炭鉱, Miike Tankō), also known as the Mitsui Miike Coal Mine (三井三池炭鉱, Mitsui Miike Tankō), was the largest coal mine in Japan,^[1] located in the area of the city 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.^[2]

In 2015, it was registered as one of the assets of the UNESCO Sites of Japan's Meiji Industrial Revolution: Iron and Steel, Shipbuilding and Coal Mining World Heritage Site.

^ Karan, P.P. & Stapleton, K.E. (1997) The Japanese city p.181 University Press of Kentucky ISBN 0-8131-2035-7 Retrieved January 2012.
^ Kapur, Nick (2018). Japan at the Crossroads: Conflict and Compromise after Anpo. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press. p. 135. ISBN 9780674988484.

[Karan-1] Karan, P.P. & Stapleton, K.E. (1997) The Japanese city p.181 University Press of Kentucky ISBN 0-8131-2035-7 Retrieved January 2012.

[Kapur135-2] Kapur, Nick (2018). Japan at the Crossroads: Conflict and Compromise after Anpo. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press. p. 135. ISBN 9780674988484.

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