Junshoku Shairei Statue

Easy to miss this bronze memorial!

Attractive bronze sculpture to memorialise the loss of 171 lives during the construction of the Kurobe Dam and Power Plant and associated Kanden Tunnel over the period 1956 ~ 1963. The sculpture is l...

Every life is important.

Original Text

... Many times, the food we eat is gone within 5 minutes, but the raw materials and cooking process may take days ... Many places we only take hours to visit. but it takes many years of construction It uses tens of millions of labor and some ...

It's a big memorial monument that looks like the people who are working on it.

Original Text

　The construction of Kurobe Damm, which was achieved by collecting the technology of the mid Showa period, was said to be a difficult construction of the century. Regarding that, I was able to know from materials and videos at the museum near the Rainbow Terrace. It seems that １７１ famous people were really sacrificed in this difficult construction. The memorial monument to the martyr was installed where the dam could be seen. In guidebooks and materials, it was a memorial monument installed outside, but for some reason it was stored in the building, and it was ...

in the building of hypothesis?

Original Text

　Kurobe Dam was born after the difficult construction of the century, which became a movie. It seems that 171 people were sacrificed for the construction work. It is a memorial to the martyr who mourns 々, but in May 2022, when we visited, it was covered with something like a temporary building, and it felt like it could be seen through the glass.

Over cool な fortifications.

Original Text

It is a memorial monument to the victims that appeared during the development of the Kurobe Dam. I've still come to the back of the mountain 〜! Kurobe Dam that feels like. It can be seen that the construction work was considerable a long time ago, when this was much inconvenient than now.