Contents

pp v-vi

Contributors

pp vii-x

Preface

pp xi-xii

Introduction: Perspectives of Environmental History in Japan

pp xiii-xviii

Part 1 - Topology of Environmental History

pp 1-2

1 - Cultural Landscapes in Japan: Case Studies in Shiga, Ehime and Okinawa Prefectures

pp 3-17

2 - Japan’s Colonial Environments

pp 18-33

3 - National Parks, Nature Conservation, War: The Development of the National Parks System in Japan, 1907–1945

pp 34-50

Part 2 - Pollution Incidents/Disasters

pp 51-52

4 - The Ashio Affair: The Emergence of Industrial Pollution as a Social, Political and Environmental Issue (19th–20th Centuries)

pp 53-69

5 - Two Outbreaks of Minamata Disease and the Struggle for Human Rights

pp 70-85

6 - Black Rain, Lawsuits and Compensation: Radiation in the Environment and Human Exposure in Hiroshima and Nagasaki

pp 86-100

7 - Environmental Problems Caused by the Shinkansen in Nagoya City

pp 101-114

Part 3 - Between Nature and Human

pp 115-116

8 - Epidemiological Landscape and Medical Theories: Focusing on a History of Smallpox in Early Modern Japan

pp 117-128

9 - Between Nature and Human: History of the Use of “Night Soil” in Japan

pp 129-141

10 - Agricultural Technology and the Environment in Modern Japan

pp 142-158

Part 4 - Seas, Lakes and Shores

pp 159-160

11 - Regional Environmental History: The Lake Biwa Region

pp 161-175

12 - The 20th Century around Tokyo Bay: Life, Production, and Environment

pp 176-192

13 - Tuna Fisheries and Thermonuclear Tests, 1954–1963

pp 193-210

Part 5 - Forestry

pp 211-212

14 - Japanese Swidden Agriculture (yakihata): Environmental History of Grassland, Forest and Fire

pp 213-232

15 - A History of Tree Planting in Modern Japan: Resource Utilization and Environment Conservation

pp 233-251

16 - Empire Forestry Endures: The Development and Continuity of Japanese Forestry in Southeast Asia, 1930–1970

pp 252-272

Index

pp 273-279