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.
Contributors: Daniel P. Aldrich, Jakobina Arch, Andrew Bernstein,
Philip C. Brown, Timothy S. George, Jeffrey E. Hanes, David L.
Howell, Federico Marcon, Christine L. Marran, Ian Jared Miller,
Micah Muscolino, Ken'ichi Miyamoto, Sara B. Pritchard, Julia Adeney
Thomas, Karen Thornber, William M. Tsutsui, Brett L. Walker,
Takehiro Watanabe.
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