Handbook of Environmental History in Japan

Table of Contents\nContributors\nPreface\nIntroduction: Perspectives of Environmental History in Japan\nPart 1: Topology of Environmental History\n1 Cultural Landscapes in Japan: Case Studies in Shiga, Ehime and Okinawa Prefectures\n2 Japan’s Colonial Environments\n3 National Parks, Nature Conservation, War: The Development of the National Parks System in Japan, 1907–1945\nPart 2: Pollution Incidents/Disasters\n4 The Ashio Affair: The Emergence of Industrial Pollution as a Social, Political and Environmental Issue (19th–20th Centuries)\n5 Two Outbreaks of Minamata Disease and the Struggle for Human Rights\n6 Black Rain, Lawsuits and Compensation: Radiation in the Environment and Human Exposure in Hiroshima and Nagasaki\n7 Environmental Problems Caused by the Shinkansen in Nagoya City\nPart 3: Between Nature and Human\n8 Epidemiological Landscape and Medical Theories: Focusing on a History of Smallpox in Early Modern Japan\n9 Between Nature and Human: History of the Use of “Night Soil” in Japan\n10 Agricultural Technology and the Environment in Modern Japan\nPart 4: Seas, Lakes and Shores\n11 Regional Environmental History: The Lake Biwa Region\n12 The 20th Century around Tokyo Bay: Life, Production, and Environment\n13 Tuna Fisheries and Thermonuclear Tests, 1954–1963\nPart 5: Forestry\n14 Japanese Swidden Agriculture (yakihata): Environmental History of Grassland, Forest and Fire\n15 A History of Tree Planting in Modern Japan: Resource Utilization and Environment Conservation\n16 Empire Forestry Endures: The Development and Continuity of Japanese Forestry in Southeast Asia, 1930–1970\nIndex