Ōeyama (mountain range)

35°27′11.999″N 135°6′24.001″E / 35.45333306°N 135.10666694°E / 35.45333306; 135.10666694Located at the base of the Tango Peninsula in Kyoto Prefecture, Ōeyama (大江山) mountain range extends over Yosano-cho, Fukuchiyama and Miyazu.

In August 1998, sixteen Chinese miners filed a damage suit to the Kyoto District Court for the harsh forced labor.

On September 29, 2004, Nippon Yakin Kogyo Co., (Tokyo Metropolitan Government) Ltd. paid the total amount of 21 million dollars for the settlement, and a reconciliation was partly effected at the Osaka High Court.

The Japan Ogre Exchange Museum (日本の鬼の交流博物館) was built on the site of an abandoned copper mine at the foot of Ōeyama in 1993.

One theory holds that people created the tsuchigumo and oni extermination legends from these incidents in order to justify and glorify themselves; at the same time, some propose that immigrants were in fact called ogres because they gathered to become thieves and terrorized the region.