Minamata : Pollution and the Struggle for Democracy in Postwar Japan / Timothy S. George.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

George, Timothy S., author.

Series:

Harvard East Asian monographs ; 194.

Harvard University Asia Center E-Book Collection ISBN: 9789004407077.

Harvard East Asian Monographs ; 194

Harvard University Asia Center E-Book Collection

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mercury--Toxicology--Japan--Minamata-shi--History--20th century.

Mercury.

Mercury--Toxicology.

Environmental health.

History.

Public health.

Japan--Minamata-shi.

Public health--Japan--Minamata-shi--History--20th century.

Environmental health--Japan--Minamata-shi--History--20th century.

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Other Title:

Pollution and the Struggle for Democracy in Postwar Japan

Place of Publication:

Leiden; Boston : BRILL, 2001.

System Details:

text file

Summary:

Nearly forty years after the outbreak of the "Minamata Disease," it remains one of the most horrific examples of environmental poisoning. Based on primary documents and interviews, this book describes three rounds of responses to this incidence of mercury poisoning, focusing on the efforts of its victims and their supporters, particularly the activities of grassroots movements and popular campaigns, to secure redress. George argues that JapanUs postwar democracy is ad hoc, fragile, and dependent on definition through citizen action and that the redress effort is exemplary of the great changes in the second and third postwar decades that redefined democracy in Japan.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Other Format:

Print version: Minamata: Pollution and the Struggle for Democracy in Postwar Japan,

ISBN:

9781684173471

9780674007857

OCLC:

1001953844

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9781684173471 DOI

Access Restriction:

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