Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents ix
3. Preface xi
4. Writing Japan at Nature’s Edge: The Promises and Perils of Environmental History 1
5. Part I: Oceans and Empires
6. 1. The Pelagic Empire: Reconsidering Japanese Expansion 21
7. From Meat to Machine Oil: The Nineteenth-Century Development of Whaling in Wakayama 39
8. Fisheries Build Up the Nation: Maritime Environmental Encounters Between Japan and China 56
9. Part II: Changing Landscapes
10. Talking Sulfur Dioxide: Air Pollution and the Politics of Science in Late Meiji Japan 73
11. Constructing Nature 90
12. Toroku: Mountain Dreams, Chemical Nightmares 115
13. Part III: Between Bodies
14. Fecal Matters: Prolegomenon to a History of Shit in Japan 137
15. Weathering Fuji: Marriage, Meteorology, and the Meiji Bodyscape 152
16. Animal Histories: Stranger in a Tokyo Canal 175
17. Part IV: Vistas and Vantage Points
18. Inventorying Nature: Tokugawa Yoshimune and the Sponsorship of Honzōgaku in Eighteenth-Century Japan 189
19. Japanese Literature and Environmental Crises 207
20. Japanese Environmental Policy: Lessons from Experience and Remaining Problems 222
21. Part V: The Triple Disaster of 3/11
22. An Envirotechnical Disaster: Negotiating Nature, Technology, and Politics at Fukushima 255
23. Postcrisis Japanese Nuclear Policy: From Topdown Directives to Bottom-Up Activism 280
24. Using Japan to Think Globally: The Natural Subject of History and Its Hopes 293
25. List of Contributors 311
26. Index 315