Handbook of environmental history in Japan
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Handbook of environmental history in Japan
(Japan documents handbooks)
Amsterdam University Press, c2023
Available at 4 libraries
  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
Note
First published: Tokyo : Japan Documents, 2023
Includes bibliographical references (p. 270-271) and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Japan: a land plagued by volcanoes, earthquakes and typhoons, yet blessed with a climate suitable for all manner of agriculture and forestry, and positioned where ocean currents collide and bring an abundance of the ocean's resources to its people; a country which moved quickly from an agrarian pre-industrial society to become one of the world's great economic powerhouses in only a few decades, spoiling water, air and land in the process, bringing misery to many of its people; a country with expansionist desires, colonizing neighboring lands, leading to war, defeat, destruction and, for the first time in history, nuclear devastation and its aftermath; a land and its people which share a remarkable resilience and ability to evaluate and correct their mistakes and renew their trajectory towards a better future.
The sixteen chapters of the Handbook of Environmental History in Japan
Table of Contents
- Introduction: Perspectives of Environmental History in Japan (Fujihara Tatsushi) Part 1: Topology of Environmental History Chapter 1: Cultural Landscapes in Japan (Uesugi Kazuhiro) Chapter 2: Japan's Colonial Environments (John Hayashi) Chapter 3: National Parks, Nature Conservation, War: The Development of the National Parks System in Japan, 1907-1945 (Nishimura Takahiro) Part 2: Pollution Incidents/Disasters Chapter 4: The Ashio Affair: The Emergence of Industrial Pollution as a Social, Political and Environmental Issue in the 19th and 20th Centuries (Cyrian Pitteloud) Chapter 5: Two Outbreaks of Minamata Disease and the Struggle for Human Rights (Seki Reiko) Chapter 6: Black Rain, Lawsuits and Compensation: Radiation in the Environment and Human Exposure in Hiroshima and Nagasaki (Nakao Maika) Chapter 7: Environmental Problems Caused by the Shinkansen in Nagoya City (Aoki Soko) Part 3: Between Nature and Humans Chapter 8: The Epidemiological Landscape and Medical Theories: Focusing on a History of Smallpox in Early Modern Japan (Kozai Toyoko) Chapter 9: Between Nature and Human: The History of the Use of "Night Soil" in Japan (Yuzawa Noriko) Chapter 10: Agricultural Technology and the Environment in Modern Japan (Fujihara Tatsushi) Part 4: Seas, Lakes and Shores Chapter 11: Regional Environmental History: The Lake Biwa Area (Hashimoto Michinori) Chapter 12: Tokyo Bay in the 20th Century: Life, Production and Environment (Kobori Satoru) Chapter 13: Tuna Fisheries and Thermonuclear Tests, 1954-1963 (Yuka Moriguchi Tsuchiya) Part 5: Forestry Chapter 14: Japanese Swidden Agriculture: Environmental History of Grasslands, Forests and Fire (Komeie Taisaku) Chapter 15: A History of Tree Planting in Modern Japan: Resource Utilization and Environment Conservation (Takemoto Taro)
- Chapter 16: Empire Forestry Endures: The Development and Continuity of Japanese Forestry in Southeast Asia, 1930-1970 (Nakashima Koji)
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