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Japan at Nature's Edge
The Environmental Context of a Global Power
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Japan at Nature's Edge
The Environmental Context of a Global Power
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Table of contents
- Contents
- Preface
- Writing Japan at Nature’s Edge: The Promises and Perils of Environmental History
- Part I: Oceans and Empires
- 1. The Pelagic Empire: Reconsidering Japanese Expansion
- From Meat to Machine Oil: The Nineteenth-Century Development of Whaling in Wakayama
- Fisheries Build Up the Nation: Maritime Environmental Encounters Between Japan and China
- Part II: Changing Landscapes
- Talking Sulfur Dioxide: Air Pollution and the Politics of Science in Late Meiji Japan
- Constructing Nature
- Toroku: Mountain Dreams, Chemical Nightmares
- Part III: Between Bodies
- Fecal Matters: Prolegomenon to a History of Shit in Japan
- Weathering Fuji: Marriage, Meteorology, and the Meiji Bodyscape
- Animal Histories: Stranger in a Tokyo Canal
- Part IV: Vistas and Vantage Points
- Inventorying Nature: Tokugawa Yoshimune and the Sponsorship of Honzōgaku in Eighteenth-Century Japan
- Japanese Literature and Environmental Crises
- Japanese Environmental Policy: Lessons from Experience and Remaining Problems
- Part V: The Triple Disaster of 3/11
- An Envirotechnical Disaster: Negotiating Nature, Technology, and Politics at Fukushima
- Postcrisis Japanese Nuclear Policy: From Topdown Directives to Bottom-Up Activism
- Using Japan to Think Globally: The Natural Subject of History and Its Hopes
- List of Contributors
- Index
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