http://www.michaeljohngrist.com a Ruins Explorer and SF / Fantasy Author in Japan Wed, 08 Feb 2012 00:41:48 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.michaeljohngrist.com/2009/11/remnants-of-kamaishi-iron-mine/ http://www.michaeljohngrist.com/2009/11/remnants-of-kamaishi-iron-mine/#comments Wed, 11 Nov 2009 02:28:35 +0000 MJG http://www.michaeljohngrist.com/?p=4576 Kamaishi Mine is ranked as the second best haikyo (ruin) in all of east Japan, according to one of the haikyo books I follow. Iron has been mined there since 1727, and Japan's first blast furnace was built there in 1857.]]> http://www.michaeljohngrist.com/2009/11/remnants-of-kamaishi-iron-mine/feed/ 6 http://www.michaeljohngrist.com/2009/08/the-great-machine-hall-of-taro-mine/ http://www.michaeljohngrist.com/2009/08/the-great-machine-hall-of-taro-mine/#comments Tue, 25 Aug 2009 21:06:36 +0000 MJG http://www.michaeljohngrist.com/?p=3623

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