What motivates people to become involved in issues and struggles beyond their own borders? How are activists changed and movements transformed when they reach out to others a world away? This adept study addresses these questions by tying together local, national, regional, and global historical narratives surrounding the contemporary Japanese environmental movement. Spanning the era of Japanese industrial pollution in the 1960s and the more recent rise of movements addressing global environmental problems, it shows how Japanese activists influenced approaches to environmentalism and...
What motivates people to become involved in issues and struggles beyond their own borders? How are activists changed and movements transformed when...
Spanning the era of Japanese industrial pollution in the 1960s and the more recent rise of movements addressing global environmental problems, this book shows how Japanese activists influenced approaches to environmentalism and industrial pollution in the Asia-Pacific region, North America, and Europe.
Spanning the era of Japanese industrial pollution in the 1960s and the more recent rise of movements addressing global environmental problems, this bo...
This edited volume addresses how transnational interactions among civil society actors in Asia and its sub-regions are helping to strengthen common democratic values and transform dominant processes of policymaking and corporate capitalism in the region.
This edited volume addresses how transnational interactions among civil society actors in Asia and its sub-regions are helping to strengthen common de...
After war defeat in 1945, Japan underwent historic political, economic and social transformations resulting in the country’s rebirth as an economic powerhouse and exemplar of liberal democracy in East Asia. This handbook expands and enriches our understanding of this tumultuous contemporary era in Japan’s modern history. Chapters in the volume ask novel theoretical questions and present fresh empirical perspectives on the era. How, for example, has the postwar era been chronologized to date and how might we rethink or enhance such interpretations? What can we learn by rethinking...
After war defeat in 1945, Japan underwent historic political, economic and social transformations resulting in the country’s rebirth as an economic ...
