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In company baths miners soap and rinse, as Japanese etiquette demands, before soaking in hot water pools.

Hokkaido, Japan, Ishikari, Japan

Author: Michael Yamashita

©Michael Yamashita

Photo size: 17.5 Mpixels (50 MB uncompressed) - 5090x3434 pixels (17x11.4 in / 43.1x29.1 cm at 300 ppi)

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Push-button affluence came last to Hokkaido of Japan's four main islands. But it has arrived, as these dispensers indicate.

In company baths miners soap and rinse, as Japanese etiquette demands, before soaking in hot water pools.

Day in darkness ends for mine workers emerging from a shift in the Ishikari coalfield, Hokkaido's largest.