> his.. belief in the Constitution as the protector of all Japanese subjects.. make it axiomatic that the welfare of citizens, no matter how obscure, must take precedence over the demands of.. industry, however ‘vital to the nation’. #Shozo was never antagonistic to industry or #modernization as such but his conviction that people came first was so deeply.. held that he never felt it necessary to discuss in a rational way the problems attendant on #RapidIndustrialization. #TanakaShozo #田中正造 #正造

> Like many of their #samurai forbears, whose attitudes in practice often belied the honoured status theoretically accorded to the farmer in #feudalSociety, they could not help regarding the peasantry as a remote, barely human species whose welfare certainly did not concern them. The instinctive assumption was, therefore, that any restriction of the mine’s activities in the interests of mere #peasants was unthinkable.
#KennethStrong in #OxAgainstTheStorm biography of #TanakaShozo #ShozoTanaka

Night, a cold hard rain
Bull pulls a loaded cart
No wheel tracks remain

Struck hard by the rain
Bull pulls funeral wagon
Nothing left after

This might be the(a?) source for #KennethStrong's book title _Ox Against The Storm: A biography of Tanana Shozo - Japan's Conservationist Pioneer

But isn't an ox a neutered bull?
En Mexicano: ¿Si, buey?

> 大雨にうたれたゝかれ重荷挽く　うしのあゆみのあとかたもなし
http://www8.plala.or.jp/kawakiyo/kiyo43_01.htm
#ShozoTanaka #正造 #TanakaShozo
#田中正造 #うしのあゆみ #OxAgainstTheStorm #BullThruStorm #BullInRain

Tanaka Shozo on Water has me thinking of LaoTzu's (LaoTse's LaoZi's) Chapter 8 and a book about pump storage dams and how they drive up the cost of electricity as they service nuclear reactors.

#ShozoTanaka #TanakaShozo #YuTanaka #TanakaYu #Water #OnWater

https://terebess.hu/english/tao/waley.html#Kap08
#ArthurWaley's verson of #TaoDeChing? #LaoTzu #LaoTse #LaoZi

Why didn't I start reading Shozo Tanaka years ago? He's making me think of Wendell Berry looking to Nature as Measure, how people should look to forests, mountains as models...
English: https://apjjf.org/-Robert-Stolz/2331/article.html
日本語: https://besobernow-yuima.blogspot.com/2013/11/japan-focus.html
code: https://codeberg.org/bsmall2/view-tables/src/branch/main/Tanaka-Shouzou/flow-v-poison
#ShozoTanaka #RobertStolz #TanakaShozo #田中正造 #谷中学 #流対毒 #FlowVsPoison

> ... the condolence payment system was fraught with rumor-mongering, intimidation and outright fraud. Despite the 1897 order and the small sums paid out by Furukawa, the pollution problem continued, and a second Pollution Prevention Committee was created in 1902.
https://apjjf.org/-Robert-Stolz/2331/article.html
I'm reading of #TanakaShozo and seeing the same patterns seen in #Minamata and #Toroku.
#RobertStolz #AshioCopperMine #CondolencePayments #見舞金

When you call your wife, you should call her by her name.
--- Shouzou Tanaka
#ShōzōTanaka #TanakaShozo #TanakaShouzou #TanakaShōzō
> According to Yanakagaku thought, the Japanese state's construction of dams and sluices inhibits the natural [Nagare] flow of the river, thereby increasing Doku [Poison].
#YanakaGaku

On #TanakaShozo's philosophy and activism.
https://apjjf.org/-Robert-Stolz/2331/article.html