Handbook of Environmental History in Japan

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