ID - 131918704 TI - Environmental Pollution and Community Rebuilding in Modern Japan AU - Yokemoto, Masafumi AU - Hayashi, Miho AU - Shimizu, Mayuko AU - Fujiyoshi, Keiji PY - 2023 SN - 9789819932399 9789819932382 9789819932405 9789819932412 PB - Singapore Springer Nature DB - UniCat KW - Political philosophy. Social philosophy KW - Environmental protection. Environmental technology KW - Civil engineering. Building industry KW - History KW - History of Asia KW - geschiedenis KW - milieubeleid KW - milieutechnologie KW - ingenieurswetenschappen KW - Japan UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:131918704 AB - This book describes how modern industry affected people in Japan and their communities by polluting their living environment with toxic emissions. It also shows how the populace endeavored not only to restore their once-clean environment but also to rebuild communities that had been damaged by pollution and its accompanying effects. Environmental pollution is usually referred to in Japan as kogai, public damage, meaning that such pollution not only harms the physical environment-air, water, soil, and the human body-but also destroys the social and personal relationships in the polluted area. Those people who took action recognized that industrial and economic development had been given the highest national priority even at the cost of their health and welfare. In this sense, anti-kogai movements led them to alternative community development and to rethinking what kind of environment and community they wanted. This book also explores the efforts driven by residents in several parts of Japan after the middle of the twentieth century and the endeavors of museums and archives as a memorial to those who suffered from the pollution and for the prospect of a better society with a good environment. ER -