Miller, Ian Jared (Editor)
Thomas, Julia Adeney (Editor)
Walker, Brett L. (Editor)
University of Hawai'i Press
Japan at Nature's Edge is a timely collection of essays that explores the relationship between Japan's history, culture, and physical environment. It greatly expands the focus of previous work on Japanese modernization by examining Japan's role in global environmental transformation and how Japanese ideas have shaped bodies and landscapes over the centuries. The immediacy of Earth's environmental crisis, a predicament highlighted by Japan's March 2011 disaster, brings a sense of urgency to the study of Japan and its global connections. The work is an environmental history in the broadest sense of the term because it contains writing by environmental anthropologists, a legendary Japanese economist, and scholars of Japanese literature and culture. The editors have brought together an unparalleled assemblage of some of the finest scholars in the field who, rather than treat it in isolation or as a unique cultural community, seek to connect Japan to global environmental currents such as whaling, world fisheries, mountaineering and science, mining and industrial pollution, and relations with nonhuman animals. The contributors assert the importance of the environment in understanding Japan's history and propose a new balance between nature and culture, one weighted much more heavily on the side of natural legacies. This approach does not discount culture. Instead, it suggests that the Japanese experience of nature, like that of all human beings, is a complex and intimate negotiation between the physical and cultural worlds.
...MoreReview Robert Stolz (2016) Review of "Japan at Nature's Edge: The Environmental Context of a Global Power". Environmental History (pp. 411-412).
Chapter Takehiro Watanabe (2013) Talking Sulfur Dioxide. In: Japan at Nature's Edge: The Environmental Context of a Global Power (pp. 73-89).
Chapter Federico Marcon (2013) Inventorying Nature. In: Japan at Nature's Edge: The Environmental Context of a Global Power (pp. 189-206).
Chapter Karen Thomber (2013) Japanese Literature and Environmental Crises. In: Japan at Nature's Edge: The Environmental Context of a Global Power (pp. 207-221).
Chapter Ken'ichi Miyamoto (2013) Japanese Environmental Policy. In: Japan at Nature's Edge: The Environmental Context of a Global Power (pp. 222-254).
Chapter David L. Howell (2013) Fecal Matters. In: Japan at Nature's Edge: The Environmental Context of a Global Power (pp. 137-151).
Chapter William M. Tsutsui (2013) The Pelagic Empire: Reconsidering Japanese Expansion. In: Japan at Nature's Edge: The Environmental Context of a Global Power (pp. 21-38).
Chapter Timothy S. George (2013) Toroku. In: Japan at Nature's Edge: The Environmental Context of a Global Power (pp. 115-136).
Chapter Daniel P. Aldrich (2013) Postcrisis Japanese Nuclear Policy. In: Japan at Nature's Edge: The Environmental Context of a Global Power (pp. 280-292).
Chapter Jakobina Arch (2013) From Meat to Machine Oil: The Nineteenth-Century Development of Whaling in Wakayama. In: Japan at Nature's Edge: The Environmental Context of a Global Power (pp. 39-55).
Chapter Ian Jared Miller (2013) Writing Japan at Nature's Edge. In: Japan at Nature's Edge: The Environmental Context of a Global Power (pp. 1-20).
Chapter Julia Adeney Thomas (2013) Using Japan to Think Globally. In: Japan at Nature's Edge: The Environmental Context of a Global Power (pp. 293-310).
Chapter Sarah B. Pritchard (2013) An Envirotechnical Disaster. In: Japan at Nature's Edge: The Environmental Context of a Global Power (pp. 255-279).
Chapter Andrew Bernstein (2013) Weathering Fuji. In: Japan at Nature's Edge: The Environmental Context of a Global Power (pp. 152-174).
Chapter Christine L. Marran (2013) Animal Histories. In: Japan at Nature's Edge: The Environmental Context of a Global Power (pp. 175-188).
Chapter Philip C. Brown (2013) Constructing Nature. In: Japan at Nature's Edge: The Environmental Context of a Global Power (pp. 90-114).
Chapter Micah Muscolino (2013) Fisheries Build up the Nation. In: Japan at Nature's Edge: The Environmental Context of a Global Power (pp. 56-72).
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