Japan at nature's edge [electronic resource] : the environmental context of a global power / edited by Ian Jared Miller, Julia Adeney Thomas, and Brett L. Walker.

Papers from a conference held in the fall of 2008 near Big Sky, Montana.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Writing Japan at nature's edge / Ian Jared Miller -- The pelagic empire / William M. Tsutsui -- From meat to machine oil / Jakobina Arch -- Fisheries build up the nation / Micah Muscolino -- Talking sulfur dioxide / Takehiro Watanabe -- Constructing nature / Philip C. Brown -- Toroku / Timothy S. George -- Fecal matters / David L. Howell -- Weathering Fuji / Andrew Bernstein -- Animal histories / Christine L. Marran -- Inventorying nature / Federico Marcon -- Japanese literature and environmental crises / Karen Thornber -- Japanese environmental policy / Ken'ichi Miyamoto -- An envirotechnical disaster / Sara B. Pritchard -- Postcrisis Japanese nuclear policy / Daniel P. Aldrich -- Using Japan to think globally / Julia Adeney Thomas.

Description based on print version record.