Notes
- I would like to acknowledge the assistance of Mr Nakamura Katsuo, Chairman, Ube Sister City Friendship Society, and Mr Kawamura Kazuaki, Manager, International Relations Section, Ube City Office, for assistance in conducting the research on which this essay is based.
- For a detailed history of Ube see: Ube-shi shihensbü iiinkai (ed.), Ube-shi shi, Ube: Ube-shi shihenshü iiinkai, 1992.
- On the industrialisation of Ube, see: Masaru Ōta, Tanto hatten no keizaishi: Ube no rekishiteki hatten to henyŌ, Ube: Ube JihŌsha, 1998.
- See, for example, Mathew Allen, Under Mining the Japanese Miracle: Work and Conflict in a Coalmining Community, Cambridge/Melbourne: Cambridge University Press, 1994.
- Ube JihŌsha (ed.), Tanto hyakunen shiwa, Ube: JihŌsha, 1998, pp.235–37.
- On the history of the Japanese coal industry, see: Richard J. Samuels, The Business of the Japanese State: Energy Markets in Comparative and Historical Perspective, Ithica/London: Cornell University Press, 1987, pp.68–134.
- Ube JihŌsha, Tanto hyakunen shiwa, pp. 331–39.
- ibid, pp.340–51.
- For an overview of modern Japanese sculpture, see: Tadayasu Sakai, ‘Modern sculpture’ in Kodansha Encyclopedia of Japan, Tokyo: Kodansha, 1983, vol. 7, pp.43–44.
- Ube JihÖsha, Tanto hyakunen shiwa, pp. 346–51.
- Ube no chŌkoku, Ube: Ube City Office, 1993.
- Yoshie Ueda, ‘GyŌsei o ugokasu shimin undŌ’ in Ube no chŌkoku, pp. 226–27.
- ibid.
- Genroku period (1688–1703).
- Meiji period (1868–1912), Taisho period (1912–1925).