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Japanese photographer, Seiichi Motohashi's photo book “The Coal Mine (New Edition)”. Japan's leading documentary photographer and film maker Seiichi Motohashi. Since 1960s, he has been active as a freelancer and has continued to follow the lives of people living in closed societies such as coal mines, popular performing arts, circus, slaughterhouses, fish market, and Chernobyl. A photographer who has left many significant works that include a social message. This book is Motohashi's first book, which was first published in 1968, and has won the Taiyo Award. A documentary set in a coal mine town left behind behind the postwar economic growth and energy revolution. Coal mines are squeezed cruelly as long as they are needed, and people who live there have been miserably thrown away when they are no longer needed. A masterpiece of a postwar documentary that portrays the daily lives of people who have been forced to live in harsh lives and high interest lending from many deaths due to accidents, welfare due to unemployment, and the unknown. This is a reprint of a 1992 publication.