Handbook of Environmental History in Japan /

Handbook of Environmental History in Japan / / ed. by Fujihara Tatsushi.

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-...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Amsterdam University Press Complete eBook-Package 2023
MitwirkendeR:
Hayashi, John,
Kazuhiro, Uesugi,
Kōji, Nakashima,
MHM Limited,
Maika, Nakao,
Michinori, Hashimoto,
Moriguchi, Yuka Tsuchiya,
Noriko, Yuzawa,
Pitteloud, Cyrian,
Reiko, Seki,
Satoru, Kobori,
Soko, Aoki,
Taisaku, Komeie,
Takahiro, Nishimura,
Tarō, Takemoto,
Tatsushi, Fujihara,
Toyoko, Kozai,
HerausgeberIn:
Tatsushi, Fujihara,
Place / Publishing House:Amsterdam : : Amsterdam University Press, , [2023]
©2023
Year of Publication:2023
Language:English
Series:Handbooks on Japanese Studies
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Physical Description:1 online resource (304 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Table of Contents
  • Contributors
  • Preface
  • Introduction: Perspectives of Environmental History in Japan
  • Part 1: Topology of Environmental History
  • 1 Cultural Landscapes in Japan: Case Studies in Shiga, Ehime and Okinawa Prefectures
  • 2 Japan’s Colonial Environments
  • 3 National Parks, Nature Conservation, War: The Development of the National Parks System in Japan, 1907–1945
  • Part 2: Pollution Incidents/Disasters
  • 4 The Ashio Affair: The Emergence of Industrial Pollution as a Social, Political and Environmental Issue (19th–20th Centuries)
  • 5 Two Outbreaks of Minamata Disease and the Struggle for Human Rights
  • 6 Black Rain, Lawsuits and Compensation: Radiation in the Environment and Human Exposure in Hiroshima and Nagasaki
  • 7 Environmental Problems Caused by the Shinkansen in Nagoya City
  • Part 3: Between Nature and Human
  • 8 Epidemiological Landscape and Medical Theories: Focusing on a History of Smallpox in Early Modern Japan
  • 9 Between Nature and Human: History of the Use of “Night Soil” in Japan
  • 10 Agricultural Technology and the Environment in Modern Japan
  • Part 4: Seas, Lakes and Shores
  • 11 Regional Environmental History: The Lake Biwa Region
  • 12 The 20th Century around Tokyo Bay: Life, Production, and Environment
  • 13 Tuna Fisheries and Thermonuclear Tests, 1954–1963
  • Part 5: Forestry
  • 14 Japanese Swidden Agriculture (yakihata): Environmental History of Grassland, Forest and Fire
  • 15 A History of Tree Planting in Modern Japan: Resource Utilization and Environment Conservation
  • 16 Empire Forestry Endures: The Development and Continuity of Japanese Forestry in Southeast Asia, 1930–1970
  • Index

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