Sanrizuka - Moeru Hokuso daichi / Document 1966-1971 (WITH OBI)

Tadao Mitome
Sanrizuka - Moeru Hokuso daichi / Document 1966-1971 (WITH OBI)

Photographs: Tadao Mitome

Publisher: Shinsensha

192 pages

Pictures: 146

Year: 1971

Price: 300 €

Comments: Hardcover under dust jacket with obi as issued, 237 x 177 mm. Gravure reproductions. First edition, 1971. Text in japanese. Included in Martin Parr & Gerry Badger, The Photobook. Stunning black & white reproductions printed in a deep gravure. In good condition other than a few scratch on the obi and a tear on the jacket (see picture). Rare with OBI.

Sanrizuka documents the intense civil unrest between residents of Sanrizuka, an agricultural area located on the east side of Narita airport, and government authorities, in the run up to the construction and later expansion of the airport. Under a 1966 plan, the airport would have been completed in 1971, but due to the ongoing resettlement disputes, not all of the land for the airport was available by then. Finally, in 1971, the Japanese government began forcibly expropriating land. 291 protesters were arrested and more than 1,000 police, villagers and student militants were injured in a series of riots.