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Japan at Nature’s Edge Japan at Nature’s Edge The Environmental Context of a Global Power edited by Ian Jared MIller JulIa adeney ThoMas and BreTT l. Walker unIversITy of ha WaI‘I Press HoNolulu © 2013 University of Hawai‘i Press All rights reserved Printed in the United States of America 18 17 16 15 14 13 6 5 4 3 2 1 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Japan at nature’s edge : the environmental context of a global power / edited by Ian Jared Miller, Julia Adeney Thomas, and Brett L. Walker. pages cm Papers from a conference held in the fall of 2008 near Big Sky, Montana. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 978-0-8248-3692-4 (cloth : alk. paper) — ISBN 978-0-8248-3876-8 (pbk. : alk. paper) 1. Human ecology—Japan—Congresses. 2. Nature and civilization—Japan— Congresses. I. Miller, Ian Jared, [date–] editor of compilation. II. Thomas, Julia Adeney, [date–] editor of compilation. III. Walker, Brett L., [date–] editor of compilation. GF666.J36 2013 304.20952—dc23 2013008411 University of Hawai‘i Press books are printed on acid-free paper and meet the guidelines for permanence and durability of the Council on Library Resources. Designed by Mardee Melton Printed by Sheridan Books, Inc. publication of this book is supported by a grant from Figure Foundation for James R. Bartholomew pioneer, friend, and teacher Contents Preface BReTT L. WALkeR xi Writing Japan at Nature’s Edge: The Promises and Perils of environmental History IAN JAReD MILLeR 1 Part I: oCeans and emPIres 1 The Pelagic empire: Reconsidering Japanese expansion WILLIAM M. TSUTSUI 21 2 From Meat to Machine Oil: The Nineteenth-Century Development of Whaling in Wakayama JAkOBINA ARCH 39 3 Fisheries Build Up the Nation: Maritime environ- mental encounters between Japan and China MICAH MUSCOLINO 56 Part II: ChangIng LandsCaPes 4 Talking Sulfur Dioxide: Air Pollution and the Politics of Science in Late Meiji Japan TAkeHIRO WATANABe 73 5 Constructing Nature PHILIP C. BROWN 90 6 Toroku: Mountain Dreams, Chemical Nightmares TIMOTHy S. GeORGe 115 Part III: Between BodIes 7 Fecal Matters: Prolegomenon to a History of Shit in Japan DAvID L. HOWeLL 137 8 Weathering Fuji: Marriage, Meteorology, and the Meiji Bodyscape ANDReW BeRNSTeIN 152 9 Animal Histories: Stranger in a Tokyo Canal CHRISTINe L. MARRAN 175 Part IV: VIstas and Vantage PoInts 10 Inventorying Nature: Tokugawa yoshimune and the Sponsorship of Honzōgaku in eighteenth-Century Japan FeDeRICO MARCON 189 11 Japanese Literature and environmental Crises kAReN THORNBeR 207 12 Japanese environmental Policy: Lessons from experience and Remaining Problems keN’ICHI MIyAMOTO 222 Part V: the trIPLe dIsaster of 3/11 13 An envirotechnical Disaster: Negotiating Nature, Technology, and Politics at Fukushima SARA B. PRITCHARD 255 14 Postcrisis Japanese Nuclear Policy: From Top- down Directives to Bottom-up Activism DANIeL P. ALDRICH 280 15 Using Japan to Think Globally: The Natural Subject of History and Its Hopes JULIA ADeNey THOMAS 293 List of Contributors 311 Index 315 x Contents
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