Word: shigetaka
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Dates: during 1986-1986
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...have survived only because of price supports. A government advisory panel last month recommended that domestic coal production should be slashed 38%, to 10 million tons a year, by 1991. As a result, about 11,000 of the country's 24,000 miners would lose their jobs. Says Shigeo Shigetaka, a union official at the Mitsui Sunagawa coal mine: "The proposed cut is the same as a death sentence." To protest the plan, workers at Japan's eleven major mines mounted a 24-hour strike on Nov. 13. Some 7,000 supporters marched with union flags and placards in subfreezing...
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