Tai-Hei-Yo Cement Plant |
Cosplay Factory Haikyo
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| The Tai-Hei-Yo Cement Plant Haikyo in Chichibu, Saitama, was once one of Japan’s biggest producers of concrete, a massive complex woven through with miles of piping, studded with huge firing kilns, silos, 30-story smoke-stacks and immense clinker vats. Now it’s a half-demolished scrapyard, strewn with piles of twisted metal wreckage, yellow chemical pools, bulldozers and cranes. | It’s rare to meet other people while exploring abandonments- by definition they should be empty, like dried-out rice husks blown in the wind. However from time to time it happens, and you may run up against an old man inexplicably stripping wood from fallen paper screens, or a gang of High School kids noisily playing truant. Perhaps the apex meeting by chance would be to see people who really ‘belong’ there. I don’t mean homeless, or other haikyoists. I mean really belong. |
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Ashiodozan 3. Power Hub and Mine |
Ashiodozan 4. Factory and Train Station |
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| Mining for Copper began in Ashio over 400 years ago, on the chance discovery of a surface lode by 2 farmers tilling their rocky topsoil. Shafts were dug and miners sent in, the process was commandeered by the Shogunate of Tokugawa Ieyasu, and production went into overdrive. | In Ashio Japan learned the true cost of industrialization, that of crippling environmental damage, as sulfuric acid from the factory numerous smelter chimneys coagulated in the atmosphere and fell as acid rain, poisoning the water table and blistering the mountains so all plant-life died. |
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Haikyoing is kind of an addiction. Every time I get back from a long haikyo weekend I think I`m done, it`s enough, but it never is.
They strapped a man to the ceiling today. I know him. His name is Wasari Ichimura. I tried to talk to him afterwards.
The US detonated hundreds of nuclear bombs as tests on the Marshall Islands in the middle of the Pacific.
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