| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 104.3

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Nimura Kazuo. The Ashio Riot of 1907: A Social History of Mining in Japan. Edited by Andrew Gordon. Translated by Terry Boardman and Andrew Gordon. (Comparative and International Working-Class History.) Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press. 1997. Pp. xviii, 275. Cloth $54.95, paper $17.95.

Nimura Kazuo's book is an impressive example of the historian's craft: rich empirically, inventive methodologically, engaged and provocative interpretively. Nimura details a landmark event in the history of Japanese labor, the three-day riot at the Furukawa Company's massive Ashio copper mine in February 1907. In this pioneering "dispute-centered study," Nimura not only documents the happenings at Ashio but minutely explores the world of miners and mine work in early industrial Japan, aspiring better to "comprehend the character of Japanese society and especially of Japanese labor relations" (p. 2). At the same time, Nimura eagerly confronts scholarly sacred cows, challenging (and eventually toppling) major interpretive traditions in Japanese social and labor history. This edition—an abridged translation of Ashio bōdō no shiteki bunseki (1988) with a new introduction and epilogue—makes Nimura's important contributions accessible in English for the first time. . . .

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