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“Give Us Our Blue Skies Back!” The extraordinary anti-pollution movement of ordinary Japanese housewives (1950-1969) (LINK)
24. April 2024 / 18:30h JST / 11:30h CEST
Anna Schrade, independent scholar
“Give us Our Blue Skies Back!” is the catchphrase under which nearly 7,000 women in Tobata (Kitakyushu) mobilised against emissions from local industries, above all from Yahata Steelworks – one of Japan’s most important and prestigious companies then. Most of the activists were ordinary housewives with little formal