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Although 'Seibutsu no Sekai (The World of Living Things)', the seminal 1941 work of Kinji Imanishi, had an enormous impact in Japan, both on scholars and on the general public, very little is known about it in the English-speaking world. This book makes the complete text available in English for the first time and provides an extensive introduction and notes to set the work in context. Imanishi's work, based on a very wide knowledge of science and the natural world, puts forward a distinctive view of nature and how it should be studied. Imanishi's work is particularly important as a background to ecology, primatology and human social evolution theory in Japan.

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Many Japanese once revered the wolf as Oguchi no Magami, or Large-Mouthed Pure God, but as Japan began its modern transformation wolves lost their otherworldly status and became noxious animals that needed to be killed. By 1905 they had disappeared from the country. In this spirited and absorbing narrative, Brett Walker takes a deep look at the scientific, cultural, and environmental dimensions of wolf extinction in Japan and tracks changing attitudes toward nature through Japan's long history.Grain farmers once worshiped wolves at shrines and left food offerings near their dens, beseeching the elusive canine to protect their crops from the sharp hooves and voracious appetites of wild boars and deer. Talismans and charms adorned with images of wolves protected against fire, disease, and other calamities and brought fertility to agrarian communities and to couples hoping to have children. The Ainu people believed that they were born from the union of a wolflike creature and a goddess.In the eighteenth century, wolves were seen as rabid man-killers in many parts of Japan. Highly ritualized wolf hunts were instigated to cleanse the landscape of what many considered as demons. By the nineteenth century, however, the destruction of wolves had become decidedly unceremonious, as seen on the island of Hokkaido. Through poisoning, hired hunters, and a bounty system, one of the archipelago's largest carnivores was systematically erased.The story of wolf extinction exposes the underside of Japan's modernization. Certain wolf scientists still camp out in Japan to listen for any trace of the elusive canines. The quiet they experience reminds us of the profound silence that awaits all humanity when, as the Japanese priest Kenko taught almost seven centuries ago, we "look on fellow sentient creatures without feeling compassion."

Extinct mammals --- Gray wolf --- Canis lupus --- Timber wolf --- Wolf --- Canis --- Wolves --- Extinct vertebrates --- Mammals --- J7550 --- J7510 --- J1723.30 --- Japan: Science and technology -- biology -- zoology, fauna --- Japan: Science and technology -- biology -- ecology (general) --- Japan: Religion in general -- nature worship

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Japanese culture is deeply rooted in nature - from literature to the visual arts, and from religious practice to daily life. How, when, and why this close association with nature developed is explored in this book by bestselling author Matsuoka Seigow. Using ten key motifs - mountains, paths, deities, wind, birds, flowers, buddhas, time, dreams, and moon - each of which serves as a lens on different aspects of Japanese culture, Matsuoka ranges from history and ethnology to the arts. He also explores the insights that emerge when traditional sensibilities are examined from the perspective of modern science. Japanese concepts of time, interval, and otherness, though arrived at intuitively, overlap with how contemporary fields such as quantum physics and relatively theory grapple with issues of uncertainty, indeterminacy, and ambiguity. Matsuoka proposes that throughout history, the phenomena of nature and the kaleidosope of seasonal change have functioned as a system of recombinant codes for the expression of the Japanese sensibility. This unique multimedia system for the cultural construction of nature has generated the essential creative motifs of Japanese literature, fine arts, and crafts, which in turn have shaped every aspect of Japanese life and thought.

Nature and nurture --- Japan --- Civilization --- J7510 --- J4150.10 --- Environment --- Genetics and environment --- Heredity and environment --- Nature --- Nature versus nurture --- Nurture and nature --- Genetics --- Heredity --- Human beings --- Japan: Science and technology -- biology -- ecology (general) --- Japan: Sociology and anthropology -- cultural history -- Kodai, prehistoric and ancient, premodern --- Nurture --- Effect of environment on --- Civilization. --- Environment and genetics --- Environment and heredity --- Nature and nurture. --- Japan - Civilization

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Based on four major case studies, this book offers an overview of contemporary Japan's changing attitudes and policies regarding environmental issues. Beginning in the 1970s, the author traces how the rapid growth of environmental politics and actions contributed to the development of a vibrant civil society.

Green movement --- Environmental sciences --- Environmental policy --- Ecologisme --- Sciences de l'environnement --- Environnement --- Social aspects --- Aspect social --- Politique gouvernementale --- Environmentalism --- Citizen participation --- JP / Japan - Japon --- 355 --- 323.5 --- J4419 --- J4010 --- J7510 --- Milieu --- Pressiegroepen. Lobbying. --- Japan: Economy and industry -- industrial organization and relations -- industry and society and environment --- Japan: Social sciences in general -- ideology, socio-political and socio-economic movements --- Japan: Natural sciences and technology -- biology -- ecology (general) --- Pressiegroepen. Lobbying --- Japan: Science and technology -- biology -- ecology (general) --- Environmental sciences - Social aspects --- Environmental policy - Japan - Citizen participation --- Écologisme --- Politique de l'environnement --- Japon --- Participation des citoyens

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"How Japanese coastal residents and transnational conservationists collaborated to foster relationships between humans and sea life"-- Drawing the Sea Near opens a new window to our understanding of transnational conservation by investigating projects in Okinawa shaped by a “conservation-near” approach—which draws on the senses, the body, and memory to collapse the distance between people and their surroundings and to foster collaboration and equity between coastal residents and transnational conservation organizations. This approach contrasts with the traditional Western “conservation-far” model premised on the separation of humans from the environment.Based on twenty months of participant observation and interviews, this richly detailed, engagingly written ethnography focuses on Okinawa’s coral reefs to explore an unusually inclusive, experiential, and socially just approach to conservation. In doing so, C. Anne Claus challenges orthodox assumptions about nature, wilderness, and the future of environmentalism within transnational organizations. She provides a compelling look at how transnational conservation organizations—in this case a field office of the World Wide Fund for Nature in Okinawa—negotiate institutional expectations for conservation with localized approaches to caring for ocean life.In pursuing how particular projects off the coast of Japan unfolded, Drawing the Sea Near illuminates the real challenges and possibilities of work within the multifaceted transnational structures of global conservation organizations. Uniquely, it focuses on the conservationists themselves: why and how has their approach to project work changed, and how have they themselves been transformed in the process?

Coastal biodiversity conservation --- Coastal zone management --- Coral reef conservation --- Conservation of coral reefs --- Coral reefs and islands --- Maintenance of coral reef productivity --- Nature conservation --- Coast ecosystem management --- Coastal ecosystem management --- Coastal management --- Coastal resource management --- Coastal resources management --- Coastal zone ecosystem management --- Coasts --- CRM (Coastal resource management) --- Zone management, Coastal --- Ecosystem management --- Natural resources --- Regional planning --- Coastal engineering --- Coast biodiversity conservation --- Coastal biodiversity --- Coastal zone biodiversity conservation --- Conservation of coastal biodiversity --- Biodiversity conservation --- Conservation --- Management --- #SBIB:39A4 --- #SBIB:39A75 --- Toegepaste antropologie --- Etnografie: Azië --- J7510 --- Japan: Science and technology -- biology -- ecology (general)