Japan at Nature's Edge: The Environmental Context of a Global Power

by Ian Jared Miller

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0824838769
• ISBN13: 9780824838768
• Release Date: July 2013
• Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 8.9"