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Constructing civil society in Japan : voices of environmental movements
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ISBN: 187684373X 1876843675 9781876843670 9781876843731 Year: 2004 Volume: 3 Publisher: Melbourne : Trans Pacific Press,

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Based on four major case studies, this book offers an overview of contemporary Japan's changing attitudes and policies regarding environmental issues. Beginning in the 1970s, the author traces how the rapid growth of environmental politics and actions contributed to the development of a vibrant civil society.

Pre-industrial Korea and Japan in Environmental Perspective
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ISSN: 09215239 ISBN: 9004136266 9786610465248 1423712404 1280465247 9047402847 9789047402848 9789004136267 9781423712404 Year: 2004 Volume: v. 11. Publisher: Leiden; Boston : BRILL,

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Quoting from a reader's report "this is an original and compelling synthesis of the environmental history of Korea and Japan." Taking the history of Japan and Korea and their environmental interactions from late Pleistocene down to about 1870 AD, the author makes a convincing case for viewing the two countries together, as a history, particularly when looking at their pre-industrial experiences. Drawing from a rare combination of knowledge of both countries, Conrad Totman reveals the extent of shared timing, substance, and dynamics in the political, social, and economic development of the two countries, and in their relationship to the ecosystem. With extensive bibliography, chronology, glossary, maps and graphs.A real must.

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Human ecology --- Agriculture --- History --- Korea --- Japan --- Environmental conditions --- History. --- Environmental conditions. --- J7510 --- J4000 --- J8100 --- J8000 --- J4419 --- K9931 --- K9300 --- K9974 --- K9413.70 --- Japan: Natural sciences and technology -- biology -- ecology (general) --- Japan: Social sciences in general, social history --- Japan: Technology and industry -- agricultural technology --- Japan: Technology and industry -- general and history --- Japan: Economy and industry -- industrial organization and relations -- industry and society and environment --- Korea: Science and technology -- biology -- ecology --- Korea: Social sciences -- general, social and cultural history --- Korea: Science and technology -- technology -- biological and agricultural technology --- Korea: Economy and industry -- relations -- environment --- Ecology --- Ecologie humaine --- Environnement --- Histoire --- Environment, Human --- Human beings --- Human environment --- Ecological engineering --- Human geography --- Nature --- Farming --- Husbandry --- Industrial arts --- Life sciences --- Food supply --- Land use, Rural --- Social aspects --- Effect of environment on --- Effect of human beings on --- Nihon --- Nippon --- Iapōnia --- Zhāpān --- I︠A︡ponii︠a︡ --- Yapan --- Japon --- Japão --- Japam --- Mư̄ang Yīpun --- Prathēt Yīpun --- Yīpun --- Jih-pen --- Riben --- Government of Japan --- 日本 --- 日本国 --- Nipponkoku --- Nippon-koku --- Nihonkoku --- Nihon-koku --- State of Japan --- Япония --- Japani --- اليابان --- al-Yābān --- يابان --- Yābān --- Japonsko --- Giappone --- Japonia --- Japonya --- J7000 --- J7590 --- Japan: Science and technology -- general and history --- Japan: Natural sciences and technology -- biology -- biological and agricultural technology --- Japan: Science and technology -- biology -- biological and agricultural technology --- Japan: Science and technology -- biology -- ecology (general) --- Jepun --- Yapon --- Yapon Ulus --- I︠A︡pon --- Япон --- I︠A︡pon Uls --- Япон Улс

The conquest of Ainu lands : ecology and culture in Japanese expansion, 1590 - 1800.
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ISBN: 9780520248342 0520248341 0520227360 9780520227361 Year: 2006 Publisher: Berkeley University of California press

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This model monograph is the first scholarly study to put the Ainu--the native people living in Ezo, the northernmost island of the Japanese archipelago--at the center of an exploration of Japanese expansion during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, the height of the Tokugawa shogunal era. Inspired by "new Western" historians of the United States, Walker positions Ezo not as Japan's northern "frontier" but as a borderland or middle ground. By framing his study between the cultural and ecological worlds of the Ainu before and after two centuries of sustained contact with the Japanese, the author demonstrates with great clarity just how far the Ainu were incorporated into the Japanese political economy and just how much their ceremonial and material life--not to mention disease ecology, medical culture, and their physical environment--had been infiltrated by Japanese cultural artifacts, practices, and epidemiology by the early nineteenth century. Walker takes a fresh and original approach. Rather than presenting a mere juxtaposition of oppression and resistance, he offers a subtle analysis of how material and ecological changes induced by trade with Japan set in motion a reorientation of the whole northern culture and landscape. Using new and little-known material from archives as well as Ainu oral traditions and archaeology, Walker poses an exciting new set of questions and issues that have yet to be approached in so innovative and thorough a fashion.

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J4207 --- J3363 --- J3480 --- J7510 --- J4140.60 --- J4000.60 --- Ainu --- -Human ecology --- -Ecology --- Environment, Human --- Human beings --- Human environment --- Ecology --- Ecological engineering --- Human geography --- Nature --- Ainos --- Ethnology --- Japan: Sociology and anthropology -- communities -- native ethnicity and race --- Japan: History -- Kinsei, Edo period -- seclusion, sakoku (1639-1854), 18th century general --- Japan: Geography and local history -- Hokkaidō prefecture (Ezo) --- Japan: Natural sciences and technology -- biology -- ecology (general) --- Japan: Sociology and anthropology -- cultural history -- Kinsei, Edo, Tokugawa period, early modern (1600-1867) --- Japan: Social history, history of civilization -- Kinsei, Edo, Tokugawa period, early modern (1600-1867) --- History --- Social aspects --- Effect of environment on --- Effect of human beings on --- Hokkaido (Japan) --- Japan --- History. --- -Aïnou (Peuple d'Asie) --- Hokkaido (Japon) --- Ainu. --- Ainu-- History. --- Hokkaido (Japan) - History. --- Human ecology - Japan - Hokkaido. --- Aïnou (Peuple d'Asie) --- Nihon --- Nippon --- Iapōnia --- Zhāpān --- I︠A︡ponii︠a︡ --- Yapan --- Japon --- Japão --- Japam --- Mư̄ang Yīpun --- Prathēt Yīpun --- Yīpun --- Jih-pen --- Riben --- Government of Japan --- 日本 --- 日本国 --- Nipponkoku --- Nippon-koku --- Nihonkoku --- Nihon-koku --- State of Japan --- Япония --- Japani --- اليابان --- al-Yābān --- يابان --- Yābān --- Japonsko --- Giappone --- Japonia --- Japonya --- -Ainu --- Human ecology --- Ecologie humaine --- Histoire --- J4150.60 --- -J4207 --- Japan: Science and technology -- biology -- ecology (general) --- -Japan: Sociology and anthropology -- communities -- native ethnicity and race --- -Ainu - History --- Human ecology - Japan - Hokkaido --- Hokkaido (Japan) - History --- Japan - History - Tokugawa period, 1600-1868 --- Ainu - History --- Jepun --- Yapon --- Yapon Ulus --- I︠A︡pon --- Япон --- I︠A︡pon Uls --- Япон Улс --- -History --- History -

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