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"Today, Japan defends its controversial whaling expeditions by invoking tradition--but what was the historical reality? In examining the techniques and impacts of whaling during the Tokugawa period (1603-1868), Jakobina Arch shows that the organized, shore-based whaling that first developed during these years bore little resemblance to modern Japanese whaling. Drawing on a wide range of sources, from whaling ledgers to recipe books and gravestones for fetal whales, she traces how the images of whales and byproducts of commercial whaling were woven into the lives of people throughout Japan. Economically, Pacific Ocean resources were central in supporting the expanding Tokugawa state. In this vivid and nuanced study of how the Japanese people brought whales ashore during the Tokugawa period, Arch makes important contributions to both environmental and Japanese history by connecting Japanese whaling to marine environmental history in the Pacific, including the devastating impact of American whaling in the nineteenth century."--

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Ann Jannetta suggests that Japan's geography and isolation from major world trade routes provided a cordon sanitaire that prevented the worst diseases of the early modern world from penetrating the country before the mid-nineteenth century. Her argument is based on the medical literature on epidemic diseases, on previously unknown evidence in Buddhist temple registers, and on rich documentary evidence from contemporary observers in Japan.Originally published in 1987.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Mortality --- Epidemics --- Disease outbreaks --- Diseases --- Outbreaks of disease --- Pandemics --- Pestilences --- Communicable diseases --- Mortality, Law of --- Death --- Demography --- Death (Biology) --- History. --- Outbreaks --- Japan --- History --- J4330 --- J4217 --- J4000.60 --- J7910 --- Japan: Economy and industry -- demography, population theory --- Japan: Sociology and anthropology -- social policy and pathology -- sanitation and public health --- Japan: Social history, history of civilization -- Kinsei, Edo, Tokugawa period, early modern (1600-1867) --- Japan: Science and technology -- medical science -- public health and general hygiene --- Mortality. --- Disease Outbreaks --- Épidémies --- Mortalité --- Mortalité. --- mortality. --- 15.75 history of Asia. --- Tokugawa period, Japan, 1600-1868. --- Epidemics. --- Maladies infectieuses --- Histoire --- 1600-1868. --- 1500-1800. --- Japan. --- Japon --- Population --- Statistiques.