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Received: 29 April 2018

Accepted: 13 July 2018

First Online: 17 August 2018

Author’s information

: Sociologist Naoko Shimazaki has been researching and writing about the Japanese coal mining industry for the last twenty years. Her particular focus has been on the re-employment of discharged coal miners, the migration of former miner’s families, and the regeneration of former coal mining region and communities. She is Professor of Sociology at Waseda University in Tokyo, Japan.

: The author declares that she has no competing interests.

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