The lifelong struggle of Japan's pioneer environmental
conservationist is described with skill and passion in Kenneth
Strong's absorbing biography, published now in paperback. Born in
1841, the year of the Ox, Shozo fought for the protection of the
environment in a country which became a leading industrial power in
less than a century, at the expense of all humanitarian and
ecological considerations. The author has also presented an overall
account of the way in which an intricate network of oligarchic and
industrial interests dominated Japan's first democratic
parliaments. The self-educated son of a peasant, pigheaded,
illogical, emotional, impetuous and politically naive, Tanaka Shozo
was elected to the Diet and established his place in history by
waging a dogged, Pyrrhic war against the gross pollution of his
constituents' food, water and land by an important copper mine.
This biography - the first on Tanaka Shozo in English - is also the
first detailed study of how the letter and spirit of Japan's 1889
constitution was applied outside Tokyo. Called in his own time an
unrealistic madman for fighting a battle today's world generally
takes far more seriously, Tanaka Shozo is liken
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