nntsuzu/KFTT huggingface dataset:
English: Ryukai MATSUMOTO says that it may not be said all the deaths were caused by the mining pollution, however, since there were a greater number of deaths than births while there were more births than deaths in Japan at that time, those deaths should be considered to have been caused by the mining pollution (it is considered that in fact among those deaths, many cases were caused by malnutrition, since the people became poor by the mining pollution; however Shozo TANAKA and Matsumoto and others said that those cases should be counted as the victims by the mining pollution).
Japanese: 松本隆海は、すべてが鉱毒が原因だとはいえないかもしれないが、当時の日本は出生数のほうが多いにもかかわらず、死者数のほうが多いのは、鉱毒に関連があるとしている（実際には、鉱毒が原因で貧困となり、栄養状態が悪化して死亡した者が多く含まれていると考えられるが、田中正造や松本はこれらも鉱毒による死者とすべきだとしている）。
English: The office of mining pollution pointed out that the stillbirth rate of the then Funatsugawa area of Ueno Village, Aso County (present Funatsugawa-cho, Sano City), which was one of heavily polluted areas, clearly exceeded the national average.
Japanese: 鉱毒激甚地であった当時の安蘇郡植野村字船津川地区（現佐野市船津川町）の死産率は明らかに全国平均を超えていることも鉱毒事務所は指摘している。
English: In "Ashio Kodoku Sanjo Gaho" (Reports and Pictures of Ashio Mining Pollution) (1901), Ryukai MATSUMOTO revealed the horrifying fact that in five years there had been only two men who had passed the medical for the draft (there were fifty people who met the age for the draft) in Takayama of Sakai Village, Aso County (present Takayama-cho, Sano City, population of approximately 800 at that time), and out of those two that passed, one was subsequently discharged on medical grounds after only ten days.
Japanese: 松本隆海は、『足尾鉱毒惨状画報』（1901年）で、安蘇郡界村字高山（現佐野市高山町、当時の人口約800人）で、5年間で兵役合格者がわずか2名しか出ておらず（適齢者は延べ50名）、しかも、その合格者のうち1名も入隊後10日で病気で除隊となったという逸話を紹介している。
English: In "Bokoku no Shukuzu" (The Epitome of the Perishing Nation) (1902) compiled by Gisuke SATO, Kikutei TAGUCHI refered to a doctor's story; the doctor had been working at a clinic for the victims of the mining pollution in Ebise Village, and although he had not taken statistics because he was very busy, he treated over 2,300 patients in a month and a half of them suffered from eye diseases, and he estimated they were caused by some qualities of the lands.
Japanese: 田口掬汀は、海老瀬村の鉱毒被害者向けの診療所の医師に聞いた話として、忙しくて統計はとっていないが、ひと月に2300名を越える患者を診断し、うち半数が眼病であったが、これは地質が及ぼす結果だろうとこの医師は推測していることを佐藤儀助編『亡国の縮図』（1902年）で紹介している。
English: Sozo SHIMADA, an ex-resident of Yanaka Village claimed his father and grandfather had died from a stomach illness caused by drinking the polluted water.
Japanese: また、元谷中村村民の島田宗三は、自身の父と祖父は、鉱毒水を飲んで胃を冒されて死亡した、と主張している。
English: Although from 1891 Shozo TANAKA frequently raised the issue of the pollution at the Diet, the government did not actively take any anti mining pollution measures.
Japanese: 1891年からたびたび田中正造が国会で質問したにもかかわらず、政府は積極的には鉱毒対策を行わなかった。
English: During this period, the major part of these measures was restrictions of speech and of the press, such as banning the publication immediately after issuance of a record of the mining pollution "Ashio Dozan Kodoku, Watarase-gawa-engan Jijo" (Ashio copper mine Mining Pollution, Status of Watarase-gawa River) published in 1891 by the residents of Azuma Village (Tochigi Prefecture).
Japanese: この時代は、1891年刊行の吾妻村(栃木県)民らによる鉱毒の記録集『足尾銅山鉱毒・渡良瀬川沿岸事情』を発刊直後に発売禁止にするなど、言論封殺が主な対策であった。
English: In 1897 large numbers of peasants from the affected area went to Tokyo to protest (called 'Oshidashi', protest) and the general verdict on the company and government became negative, then, in March of the same year, the government established the Research Committee of Ashio copper mine Mining Pollution and issued several acts for preventing mining pollution.
Japanese: 1897年、鉱毒被害地の農民が大挙して東京に陳情（当時の表現では押出し）を行うなど、世論が高まると、同年3月、政府は足尾銅山鉱毒調査委員会を設置し、数度の鉱毒予防令を出した。
English: The most important measure was the third prevention order implemented in May, 1897 which mandated Furukawa to make filtration basins and deposit basins and deposit sites, and to install desulphurization equipments on chimneys.
Japanese: 特に大規模なものは1897年5月の第3回目の予防令で、古河側に、排水の濾過池・沈殿池と堆積場の設置、煙突への脱硫装置の設置を命令した。
English: All these conditions had deadlines of several weeks, and if any one of them had been delayed, the company had to close the mine.
Japanese: これらはどれもが数十日の期限付きで、一つでも遅れた場合には閉山するというものだった。
English: Furukawa implemented construction non stop for 24hrs and they even used electric lighting which was still unusual in those days and they were made to complete all construction in time.
Japanese: 古河側は当時珍しかった電灯などを活用し、24時間体制で工事を行った結果、すべての工事が期限内に間に合った。
English: For many years the government had been explaining that the works by the preventive measure and the renovation on Watarase-gawa River which was completed 1927 (see below) had solved the mining pollution, however, in the Environmental White Paper of 1993, they admitted that the then measures had been not enough to solve the fundamental issues.
Japanese: 政府は長年、この予防令による工事と、後述する渡良瀬川の改修工事（1927年竣工）で鉱毒問題は解決したとしてきたが、1993年、『環境白書』で、当時の対策が不十分で、根本的な解決とはならなかったことを認めた。
English: Specifically, the filtration basins and deposit basins were broken in 1898, and the mineral poison flowed downstream again.
Japanese: 具体的には、濾過池・沈殿池は翌1898年には決壊し、再び下流に鉱毒が流れ出した。
English: Desulphurization equipments on the chimneys did not work due to the low level of technology of the time, and the effect was negligible.
Japanese: 煙突の脱硫装置も、当時の技術レベルでは機能せず、効果は無いに等しかった。
English: The outflow of the mineral waste from the deposit sites had been already pointed out by the second Research Commission of the Mining Pollution of 1902 (although the committee failed to recognize the significance of it)
Japanese: 堆積場からの鉱石くずの流出は、既に1902年の第二次鉱毒調査委員会で指摘されている（しかし、第二次鉱毒調査委員会は特にそれを問題視することはなかった）。
English: Some residents suffered the damage stood up to protest again the lack of effectiveness of the anti-pollution constructions and went to Tokyo with many followeres to make the third (September 1898) and the fourth (February 1900) petition (Oshidashi).
Japanese: 被害民の一部は、鉱毒予防工事の効果はないものとみなして再び反対運動に立ち上がり、3回目（1898年9月）と4回目（1900年2月）の大挙上京請願行動（押出し）を決行した。
English: In the fourth Oshidashi (petition), the peasants and the police clashed and many peasants were arrested (Kawamata Incident).
Japanese: 4回目の押出しでは、農民側と警察側が衝突して大勢の逮捕者が出た（川俣事件）。
English: However, in the autumn of the following year (1901), the effect of the construction started to be felt, and the press stated that agricultural land had made quite a recovery.
Japanese: しかし、実はその翌年（1901年）の秋には、工事の効果が現れはじめ、新聞も農地がかなり回復していると報道した。
English: For example, Tokyo Asahi (newspaper) dated October 6 reported "apart from worst hit areas, they had a large harvest."
Japanese: たとえば、10月6日付の『東京朝日』には、「激甚被害地を除く他は極めて豊作」と出ている。
English: However some people point out that such report must have been based on a research at very small part of the area, as the press's researching capacity of that time was limited and they could not research all the parts of the area along Watarase-gawa River.
Japanese: ただし、これらの報道については、当時のマスコミのみの取材能力では、渡良瀬川沿岸全域を調査したとは考えられず、一部地域のみの情報を元にしたものであるという指摘がされている。
English: This measure was taken due to the peasants' demands, however it brought bad effects that many residents lost the right to vote, and that some villages could not have the next chiefs since nobody could not run for chief in fact (in those days it was necessary to have paid a certain amount of direct taxes to have the right to vote).
Japanese: これは農民の要求を受け入れたものだが、この措置のおかげで選挙権を失うものが続出、誰も立候補できずに村長が選べない村も出るという弊害も生まれた（当時は一定額の直接税を納めないと選挙権が得られなかった）。
English: After Shozo TANAKA made direct appeals to the government, popular opinion changed in the residents' favor as many groups of college students visited Ashio one after another, and the government, realizing it could become a threat, hastily set up the second Research Committee of the Mining Pollution in 1902.
Japanese: 田中正造の直訴後、学生が相次いで団体で足尾見学に向かうなど、世論の盛り上がりにあわてた政府は、1902年に第二次鉱毒調査委員会を設置した。
English: This committee concluded in 1903 that after the preventive measure of 1897, the mining pollution had been decreased, and they submitted a report suggesting that they should build a large, control basin near Watarase-gawa River's mouth for settling mineral poison and for preventing floods.
Japanese: 同委員会は1903年に、1897年の予防令後は鉱毒は減少したと結論づけ、洪水を防ぐために渡良瀬川下流に鉱毒沈殿用の大規模な「遊水池」を作るべきとする報告書を提出した。
English: Although the second Research Committee of the Mining Pollution, as described above, concluded that the construction by the first measure decreased the mining pollution, there was no researching result to show they had stopped the pollution.
Japanese: しかし、第二次鉱毒調査委員会は、前述のとおり、予防令による工事で鉱毒は減少したとは結論づけたが、鉱毒が消滅したという調査結果はない。
English: The committee concluded 'as for the copper which damages crops, there are the residues flowed before the preventive construction, however in the current operation, the flowing poison is a little, so the government exonerates Furukawa Mining from blame' (Masaomi YUI "Tanaka Shozo"), and in fact, in October of 1903, 'the damaged area had a good crop of rice' and Shozo TANAKA also gave lectures at many places setting the title of the lecture as 'the real circumstances of the rich harvest in the damaged area' ("the complete works of Shozo TANAKA" page 477 of the "supplementary volume").
Japanese: 同調査会の結論は「作物に被害を与える銅分は、予防工事前の残留分で現業によるものは少ないとして古河鉱業の責任を解除した」（由井正臣『田中正造』）ものだったが、実際、1903年10月には「被害地の稲は豊作」になり、田中正造も「被害地豊作の実況」と題する演説をして歩いた（『田中正造全集・別巻』477頁）。
English: In those lectures, Shozo protested as 'the good harvest is never a result from the construction, but it is because the landslides occurred by the bad flood last year and the farmlands of the damaged area were covered with new earth.'
Japanese: この演説で正造は、「豊作の原因は断じて工事の効果ではない。去年の大洪水による山崩れで、新しい土が被害農地にかぶさったためだ」と抗弁した。
English: On the other hand, it is said that in Yamada County of Gunma Prefecture, the mining pollution became thicker in that period.
Japanese: しかし、群馬県山田郡側の鉱毒被害は、この時代、逆に増加したといわれる。
English: The reason is unknown, however, some researchers consider that since the method of extraction was changed to froth flotation (flotation) in the Taisho period, copper waste became smaller enough to float on the river, and that a lot of those wastes accumulated in the right side of the upper stream of Watarase-gawa River.
Japanese: 理由は不明だが、大正時代、製錬方法が浮遊選鉱法に変更されたことにより渡良瀬川を流れる鉱石くずの粒が細かくなり、浮遊したまま川を流れるようになったため、上流部の渡良瀬川右岸に多く流れ込んで堆積するようになったと考える研究者がいる。
English: During this period, it was reported that the mining pollution was decreased in many presses, however, some researchers consider that it was because Yamada County had not been regarded as heavily polluted area in the beginning of the mining pollution and journalists did not visit there yet.
Japanese: この時代、鉱毒が減ったような報道が多くされたのは、鉱毒発生当初は山田郡は鉱毒激甚地とはみなされていなかったため、マスコミが取材に訪れなかったためだと考える研究者がいる。
English: In response to the report by the second Research Committee of the Mining Pollution, Watarase Yusuichi (Watarase Pond), the control basin for settling mineral poison was built on the prefectural borders between Tochigi, Gunma, Saitama, and Ibaraki Prefectures.
Japanese: 第二次鉱毒調査会の報告書を受け、栃木県、群馬県、埼玉県、茨城県の境に、鉱毒沈殿用の渡良瀬遊水地が作られた。
English: Originally it was planned to be built on the Saitama Prefecture's side, however due to the heavy opposition, it was changed to be built on the Tochigi Prefecture's side.
Japanese: 当初、埼玉県側に作られる予定であったが、激しい反対のために栃木県側に予定が変更された。
English: The site originally belonged to Yanaka Village, Shimotsuga County, Tochigi Prefecture, which residents had been making their living mainly from the soil.
Japanese: この土地は元々、農業を主な産業としていた栃木県下都賀郡谷中村であった。
English: Since Shozo TANAKA lived Yanaka Village and the village was the stronghold of the movement against the pollution, people said that the plan had been made to crush the movement.
Japanese: 谷中村には田中正造が住み、公害運動の拠点となっていたことから、運動をつぶすための決定だといわれた。
English: From 1910 to 1927, on Watarase-gawa River were done the large-scale river works such as changing the whole ex-Yanaka Village into a control basin and diverting the stream of Watarase-gawa River; and in fact, those works decreased floods.
Japanese: 1910年から1927年にかけ、谷中村を遊水地にし、渡良瀬川の流れの向きを変えるなど、大規模な河川工事が行われ、洪水は減少した。
English: However, it did not stop earth and sand flowing down from the mountain of Ashio to accumulate downstream.
Japanese: しかし、足尾の山から流出する土砂が下流で堆積するのは止まらなかった。
English: Besides, it just decreased the mining pollution at the area along the lower river, and from the mines, the mineral poison kept pouring.
Japanese: また、下流地域での鉱毒被害が減っただけで、新たな鉱毒の流出が消滅したわけではなかった。
English: As described above, in 1993, the government acknowledged for the first time that those measures they had taken at that time had not been enough to solve the pollution.
Japanese: 政府が当時のこれらの対策が不十分であることを認めたのは、前述したとおり1993年であった。
English: In 1960, in order to prevent soil erosion, a bosa-dam (dam for preventing soil erosion), Ashio Dam (also known as Misawa Goryu Dam, literally, Misawa Meeting Dam) was built in Ashio-machi.
Japanese: 土砂の流出を防ぐため、1960年、足尾町に防砂ダムの足尾ダム（通称、三沢合流ダム）が作られた。
English: A multipurpose dam, Kusaki Dam was built in Azuma Village, Seta County, Gunma Prefecture (present Seta County, Gunma Prefecture), along the upper stream of Watarase-gawa River mainly for controlling flood of Watarase-gawa River and for supply of water for the metropolitan area (completed in 1977).
Japanese: 渡良瀬川の治水と首都圏への水道供給を主目的にした多目的ダム、草木ダムが渡良瀬川上流の群馬県勢多郡東村(群馬県勢多郡)に作られた（1977年竣工）。
English: This dam had not been for controlling mining pollution, however, after Eiichiro KONDO, a member of the House of Councilors (at that time) enquired at the committee of commerce and industry, it was concluded that 'it is especially important to keep water quality of this dam.'
Japanese: このダムは鉱毒対策を目的の中に入れていなかったが、参議院議員近藤英一郎（当時）が商工委員会で質問を行った結果、このダムについては「水質保全に特に留意」することとされた経緯がある。
English: So they adopted a new filter roller of semi-cylindrical form with a lot of layers to prevent mineral poison from pouring into rivers and streams.
Japanese: 鉱毒を下流に流さないようにするための半円筒形多段ローラーも採用された。
English: This dam has been constantly being tested for its water quality and the results have been published, and these kinds of multi-purpose dams are rare in Japan.
Japanese: このダムは常時水質検査が行われ、結果が随時公表されているが、そのような多目的ダムは日本にはほとんど存在しない。
English: Probably because the completion of construction was after the closure of the mines, abnormal values in the water quality tests have not been often detected.
Japanese: 竣工が銅山の閉山後だったこともあり、水質検査では異常な値はあまり検出されていない。
English: In July 30, 1976, Gunma Prefecture, Tochigi Prefecture, Kiryu City and Ota City made a pollution control agreement with Furukawa Mining.
Japanese: 1976年7月30日、群馬県、栃木県、桐生市、太田市と古河鉱業の間で公害防止協定が締結された。
English: However, the Association of Mining Pollution Eradication in Morita (see below) refused to join the agreement.
Japanese: ただし、後述する毛里田地区鉱毒根絶期成同盟会はこの協定への参加を拒否した。
English: Land improvements of the agricultural land in the affected areas were implemented after the conclusion of the pollution control agreement (see below).
Japanese: 鉱毒被害地の農地の土地改良も、公害防止協定締結後に行われた（後述）。
English: By the way, in 2005 Gunma Prefecture pointed out the water quality tests based on the agreement showed that water from the deposit site had exceeded the environmental standards sometimes during rainfall.
Japanese: なお、協定に基づく水質検査の結果、降雨時の堆積場からの水質が環境基準を超えていることがあることを群馬県が2005年に指摘している。
English: The first movement developed in 1890 as the association of Azuma Village, Ashikaga County, Tochigi Prefecture (present Azuma district of Sano City) resolved to ask the company to suspend the operations of Ashio mines.
Japanese: 最初の運動は、1890年、栃木県足利郡吾妻村（現在の佐野市吾妻地区）会が足尾鉱山の操業停止を求める決議を採択した。
English: Shozo TANAKA, a member of the House of Representatives from Sano made enquiries at the parliament beginning in 1891, and the damages by the mining pollution became public throughout the nation.
Japanese: 佐野出身の衆議院議員田中正造は1891年以降、たびたび国会で鉱毒の質問を行い、鉱毒の害は全国に知れ渡った。
English: Tochigi Prefecture conducted a meeting of arbitration of the mining pollution, and offered a composition that the Furukawa side should pay money to the peasants in around 1893 and carry out some measures to eliminate the pollution by the end of June, 1896.
Japanese: 栃木県は鉱毒仲裁会をつくり、古河側が、1893年頃に農民に示談金を払い、1896年6月末までに対策を行って鉱毒をなくすという内容で示談を行わせた。
English: However, by the floods of 1896, damages from the mining pollution spread, and it revealed the fact that no measures had been taken, and the peasants negotiated again with the company using the agreement of composition for the evidence.
Japanese: しかし、1896年の大洪水でさらに鉱毒が拡大し、対策がなされていないことが判明すると、農民側は示談契約書を根拠に再度交渉を行った。
English: In this negotiation, the Furukawa side changed their policy to offer a final composition that they would give some money and in return demand the abandonment of the right in the future to claim against them for damages by the mining pollution.
Japanese: このとき、古河側が農民に若干の示談金を与えるかわりに、それ以前、以後の鉱毒被害の請求権を放棄するという内容の永久示談に切り替えた。
English: However, in fact, some peasants refused to accept money and the movement against the mining pollution continued after that.
Japanese: しかし、示談金の受け取りを拒否した農民もおり、鉱毒反対運動はこの後も続いた。
English: According to Eizaburo MORINAGA, in 1893, for the composition with a term of validity, Ichibei FURUKAWA (Furukawa Mining) paid 76,602 yen 96 sen 9 ri ('sen' and 'ri' were monetary units used at that time) to 8,414 peasants for the damaged areas of 4,360 cho 96 ho 6 bu (about 4,360 hectares), and in 1896, for the final composition, Furukawa paid 30,119 yen 23 sen 2 rin to 5,127 peasants for the damaged areas of 2,207 cho 43 ho 14 bu (about 2,207 hectares).
Japanese: 森長英三郎によれば、1893年の時限付き示談の内容は、古河市兵衛が農民8414人の被害地4360町96畝06歩に対し76602円96銭9厘を支払うというもので、1896年の永久示談は農民5127人の被害地2207町43畝14歩に対し30119円23銭2厘を払うというものであった。
English: According to Morinaga's calculations, at the composition in 1893, 1 yen 75 sen were paid for 1 tan (about 10 are) on the average, and at the composition in 1896, 1 yen 54 sen were paid for 1 tan on the average.
Japanese: 森長の概算によれば1893年の示談の平均は1反あたり1円75銭、1896年の示談の平均は1反あたり1円54銭である。
English: The movement against the pollution gathered pace after the floods in 1896, and October 4, under the leadership of Shozo TANAKA, the mining pollution office of Tochigi Prefecture and Gunma Prefecture was estavlished in Unryu-ji Temple in Watarase Village, Oura County, Gunma Prefecture (present Shimohayakawada-cho, Tatebayashi City).
Japanese: 反対運動が最も盛んになったのは、1896年の洪水以降で、田中正造の主導の元、10月4日、群馬県邑楽郡渡瀬村(群馬県)（現在の館林市下早川田町）にある雲龍寺に、栃木・群馬両県の鉱毒事務所が作られた。
English: Although in those days people did not call such a action including petition by a specific name, the peasants called it 'Oshidashi' (literally, 'pushing').
Japanese: このような陳情には当時名がついておらず、農民らは「押出し」と呼んだ。
English: According to Satoru FUKAWA, the victims made large-scale Oshidashi six times in the Meiji period (March 2, 1897; March 24, 1897; September 26, 1898; February 13, 1900; February 19, 1902; March 2, 1902).
Japanese: 布川了によれば、大規模な押出しは明治期に6回行われている（1897年3月2日、1897年3月24日、1898年9月26日、1900年2月13日、1902年2月19日、1902年3月2日）。
English: At the third Oshidashi, Tanaka (Shozo), who was a member of the House of Representatives and belonged to the ruling party at that time, persuaded the group of peasants and followers away from the direct petition, and most of them went home, however immediately after that, the government collapsed.
Japanese: 第3回押出しで、与党議員であった田中は農民等を説得して大部分を帰郷させたが、直後に政権が崩壊。
English: And Tanaka persuaded the victims to make a kind of assembly (called the mining pollution assembly) in the damaged areas, Tochigi and Gunma Prefectures, to make the fourth Oshidashi.
Japanese: 田中は第4回押出しを行うための機関、鉱毒議会を現地栃木・群馬県で組織させた。
English: In 1896, Gunma Prefectural Assembly decided to demand Ashio copper mine to close down operations ("The Proposal for the Issue of the Mining Pollution").
Japanese: 1896年には群馬県議会が足尾銅山の操業停止を求める議決（『鉱毒ノ儀ニ付建議』）を行った。
English: Tochigi Prefectural Assembly had already decide to demand the research in Ashio copper mine in 1890, however, because Tochigi was not only the damaged area but also the base of the company possessing Ashio copper mine, the issue became complicated in the assembly, and in 1896 they did not decided anything concerning the mining pollution.
Japanese: 一方、栃木県議会は1890年に足尾銅山の調査を求める議決を行っていたが、鉱毒被害地と足尾銅山双方の地元であるという事情から議会が紛糾し、1896年には鉱毒に関する議決は行わなかった。
English: In the middle of the wars including the Sino-Japanese War and the Russo-Japanese War, the government could not stop operations at the mines, and in order to stop the victims' protest, they decided to close Yanaka Village and in 1907 executed the destruction of the village.
Japanese: 当時、日清戦争・日露戦争のさなかであった政府としては、鉱山の操業を止める事はできず、反対運動を食い止めるため、政府は運動の盛んだった谷中村の廃村を決し、1907年強制破壊が行われる。
English: After that, the villagers moved to the neighboring Fujioka-cho, the area of present Itakura-machi in Gunma Prefecture, other towns and villages in Shimotsuga County, Koga-cho (present Koga City), Nasu County, and Saroma-cho in Tokoro County in Hokkaido.
Japanese: その後、村民は主に隣の藤岡町や群馬県板倉町にあたる地域、下都賀郡の他の町村、古河町（現在の古河市）、那須郡、北海道常呂郡佐呂間町に移住した。
English: Although people, who had not lived in Yanaka Village, also moved to such towns at that time, the measures of the movement and acceptance had been originally to relieve the ex-residents of Yanaka Village.
Japanese: また、元谷中村民以外も一緒に移住したが、実質的には元谷中村民救済の意味が強かった。
English: By the way, after the villager had moved to Hokkaido, an area in Saroma-cho (in Tokoro County, Hokkaido) was named 'Tochigi' after their hometown.
Japanese: なお、佐呂間町にある「栃木」という地名は、この移住の際につけられたものである。
English: The movement against the mining pollution was gradually weakened due to the closure of Yanaka Village and the decrease of floods as the results of the large-scale constructions along Watarase-gawa River, and especially after 1902 when there was a good harvest in the damaged areas including Ashikaga County, Yanada County, Aso County, Shimotsuga County, Oura County, the movement became very weak.
Japanese: 鉱毒反対運動は、谷中村の廃村や、渡良瀬川の大工事による洪水の減少などによりしだいに弱まり、特に1902年以降、足利郡、梁田郡、安蘇郡、下都賀郡、邑楽郡の鉱毒被害地が豊作になると弱体化した。
English: And after the central figure of the movement, Shozo TANAKA died in 1913, the movement also almost died.
Japanese: さらに運動の中心人物であった田中正造が1913年に没するとほぼ消滅した。
English: However, in Yamada County of Gunma Prefecture, the mining pollution kept causing damages and residents of the area kept the movement against the pollution (see below).
Japanese: しかし、群馬県山田郡の鉱毒被害は止まず、この地区ではこの後も鉱毒反対運動が続いた（後述）。
English: The residents in Akakura area of Ashio-machi which damaged by air pollution by the mines' smoke formed the air pollution committee in 1920.
Japanese: 煙害に困った足尾町赤倉地区の住民が1920年に煙害問題安定期成会を結成。
English: However, many were making a living through business with the copper mine and the movement never gained significant support.
Japanese: しかし、土地柄、銅山との商取引で生計を立てている者が多く、運動は盛り上がらなかった。
English: In the end, only a few of them, who had not done any business with the copper mine, managed to get compensation, however it led to division in the town.
Japanese: 最終的に、銅山に全く依存していない数軒のみが賠償を受けることに成功したが、逆に町内の分断を招いた。
English: The unions of the areas which had drawn water for fields from Watarase-gawa River on the right of the midstream, including the Common Water Supply Union of Machi-Yaba Ryozeki (present Machi-Yaba Twin Weir System Land Improvement District which had supplied water mainly to Yamada County and Oura County in Gunma Prefecture), and the Common Water Supply Union of Mikuriya Yosui (present Mikuriya Water Land Improvement District), did not make a final composition (with the condition that they should abandon every right to demand or negotiate after the composition in exchange for some money) with the Furukawa side, and instead of that, they made the composition with the term of validity and the renewal of the composition several times.
Japanese: 渡良瀬川から農業用水を取水していた中流右岸の待矢場両堰普通水利組合（現在の待矢場両堰土地改良区。主に群馬県山田郡、邑楽郡の町村に用水を供給していた）と三栗谷用水普通水利組合（現在の三栗谷用水土地改良区、主に足利郡右岸に用水を供給）は、古河側と永久示談を行わず、期限つきの示談交渉を数度に渡り延長する方式をとっていた。
English: However, in 1902 and 1904, the Furukawa side did not make the renewal of the composition explaining that the conditions had changed.
Japanese: しかし、1902年、1904年に古河側は状況が変わったとして示談延長を停止。
English: Those two unions often carried out on-the-spot investigation in Ashio to calculate the compensation.
Japanese: 両組合は、賠償請求額を算出するためにそれぞれ独自にたびたび足尾の現地視察などを行った。
English: In 1917, the Common Water Supply Union of Machi-Yaba Ryozeki submitted papers to the governor of Gunma Prefecture to point out that the mining pollution was still tainting Watarase-gawa River.
Japanese: 1917年、待矢場両堰普通水利組合は、渡良瀬川には鉱毒はなくなっていないとする意見書を群馬県知事に提出した。