https://wiki.sarg.dev/index.php?action=history&feed=atom&title=Ashio%2C_TochigiAshio, Tochigi - Revision history2026-06-05T12:51:28ZRevision history for this page on the wikiMediaWiki 1.44.2https://wiki.sarg.dev/index.php?title=Ashio,_Tochigi&diff=520938&oldid=previmported>Entranced98: Adding local short description: "Dissolved municipality in Tochigi prefecture, Japan", overriding Wikidata description "dissolved municipality in Kamitsuga district, Tochigi prefecture, Japan"2025-08-05T22:47:15Z<p>Adding local <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Short_description" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:Short description">short description</a>: "Dissolved municipality in Tochigi prefecture, Japan", overriding Wikidata description "dissolved municipality in Kamitsuga district, Tochigi prefecture, Japan"</p>
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[[File:Map.Ashio-Town.Tochigi.PNG|thumb|Map of Ashio, Tochigi]]<br />
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{{nihongo|'''Ashio'''|足尾町|Ashio-machi}} was a [[List of towns in Japan|town]] located in [[Kamitsuga District, Tochigi|Kamitsuga District]], [[Tochigi Prefecture|Tochigi]], [[Japan]].<br />
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As of 2003, the town had an estimated [[population]] of 3,465 and a [[population density|density]] of 18.65 persons per km<sup>2</sup>. The total area was 185.79&nbsp;km<sup>2</sup>.<br />
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On March 20, 2006, Ashio, along with the city of [[Imaichi, Tochigi|Imaichi]], the town of [[Fujihara, Tochigi|Fujihara]], and the village of [[Kuriyama, Tochigi|Kuriyama]] (both from [[Shioya District, Tochigi|Shioya District]]), was merged into the expanded city of [[Nikkō, Tochigi|Nikkō]].<br />
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The [[Ashio Copper Mine]] was located in Ashio. This [[copper mine]] caused a major [[pollution]] problem in Japan at the beginning of the 20th century. Subsequent environmental problems related to the mine are still evident along the river, in [[Tochigi Prefecture|Tochigi]], [[Gunma Prefecture|Gunma]] and [[Ibaraki Prefecture]]s. In 1907 the Ashio miners rioted.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Tsutsui |first1=William M. |title=Book Review: The Ashio Riot of 1907 |journal=The American Historical Review|date=June 1999 |volume=104 |issue=3 |url=http://www.historycooperative.org/journals/ahr/104.3/br_18.html |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20000925040135/http://www.historycooperative.org/journals/ahr/104.3/br_18.html |archive-date=September 25, 2000}}</ref> During [[World War II]] a [[POW]] camp was based here to supply slave labour to the copper mines.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.legion.org/honor/234908/we-were-determined-get-home |first=Andrea C. |last=Dickerson<br />
|date=November 17, 2016 |title=We were determined to get home |website=The American Legion}}</ref><br />
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The following communities agreed to seek the permission of the governor of the prefecture to merge on March 1, 2006:<br />
* [[Nikkō]]<br />
* [[Imaichi, Tochigi|Imaichi]]<br />
* Ashio<br />
* [[Fujihara, Tochigi|Fujihara]]<br />
* [[Kuriyama, Tochigi|Kuriyama]]<br />
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==References==<br />
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* Nimura Kazuo. (1997) ''The Ashio Riot of 1907: A Social History of Mining in Japan''(''Ashio bōdō no shiteki bunseki'' translated by Terry Boardman and Andrew Gordon). Durham, N.C.: [[Duke University Press]]. {{ISBN|978-0-8223-2018-0}} (paper)<br />
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==External links==<br />
* [https://www.city.nikko.lg.jp/ Nikkō official website] {{in lang|ja}}<br />
* {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.town.ashio.tochigi.jp/|title=Ashio official website}} {{in lang|ja}}<br />
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[[Category:Dissolved municipalities of Tochigi Prefecture]]<br />
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