Japan at nature's edge : the environmental context of a global power

Content: Writing Japan at nature\'s edge : the promises and perils of environmental history / Ian Jared Miller --
The pelagic empire : reconsidering Japanese expansion / William M. Tsutsui --
From meat to machine oil : the nineteenth-century development of whaling in Wakayama / Jakobina Arch --
Fisheries build up the nation : maritime environmental encounters between Japan and China / Micah Muscolino --
Talking sulfur dioxide : air pollution and the politics of science in late Meiji Japan / Takehiro Watanabe --
Constructing nature / Philip C. Brown --
Toroku : mountain dreams, chemical nightmares / Timothy S. George --
Fecal matters : prolegomenon to a history of shit in Japan / David L. Howell --
Weathering Fuji : marriage, meteorology, and the Meiji bodyscape / Andrew Bernstein --
Animal histories : stranger in a Tokyo canal / Christine L. Marran --
Inventorying nature : Tokugawa Yoshimune and the sponsorship of honzōgaku in eighteenth-century Japan / Federico Marcon --
Japanese literature and environmental crises / Karen Thornber --
Japanese environmental policy : lessons from experience and remaining problems / Ken\'ichi Miyamoto --
An envirotechnical disaster : negotiating nature, technology, and politics at Fukushima / Sara B. Pritchard --
Postcrisis Japanese nuclear policy : from top-down directives to bottom-up activism / Daniel P. Aldrich --
Using Japan to think globally : the natural subject of history and its hopes / Julia Adeney Thomas.