Environmental Politics in Japan: Networks of Power and ProtestJapan experienced rapid industrial growth after World War II, but its economic miracle brought dramatic environmental deterioration. In the early 1970s, as local protest movements grew more vocal, the Japanese government moved relatively swiftly to regulate industrial pollution and succeeded in reducing its air and water pollution, but not many other environmental problems. This book analyzes the social, cultural, and political-economic causes of Japan's dramatic environmental damage and eventual partial restoration from 1955 to 1995. A case of regional heavy industrial growth and environmental protest in rural Japan provides the local details of how pro-growth and pro-environment coalitions mobilized, struggled, and affected policy outcomes in Japan. The author uses the case-study finding to comment on sociological and political science theories about the effects of culture and social structure on state policy-making, social control, protest movement mobilization and success, and environmental problem-solving. |
Contents
Growth versus the environment in Japan | 1 |
A framework for understanding | 4 |
The growthenvironment dilemma | 10 |
Japans miracles and debacles | 12 |
How did Japans pollution miracle come about? | 18 |
Why the GE dilemma and Japans response? | 20 |
Research site and methods | 32 |
Summary | 40 |
Conclusions | 219 |
The Governor gives in | 222 |
Widening the front | 228 |
Stunning victories | 241 |
Conclusions | 248 |
Contested consensus | 254 |
consensus | 255 |
A different path to consensus | 264 |
Visions and realities of growth | 42 |
Power to the periphery? | 57 |
Making the New Industrial City | 62 |
Polarization over progress | 72 |
Conclusions | 88 |
Protest and Policy Change | 97 |
National and prefectural response | 112 |
Conclusions | 130 |
Movement startups | 134 |
Early mobilization in Oita | 137 |
The swelling wave | 139 |
Reactions to Phase Two | 150 |
Protest against Landfill No 8 | 154 |
The Seki setting | 155 |
Kozakis reaction | 158 |
The Seki Union | 170 |
The Baba countermovement | 171 |
Analysis | 175 |
Under the machine | 185 |
The first steps of conflict in Kozaki | 186 |
Machine politics | 200 |
The Triple Control Machine | 215 |
normalization | 269 |
Nishio falls | 273 |
Conclusions | 280 |
Pyrrhic victories | 282 |
The national context | 286 |
Making the assessment | 295 |
Outcome and aftermath | 315 |
Conclusions | 326 |
Power protest and political change | 331 |
Comparative ACID responses to the GE dilemma | 332 |
The how of Japans response | 338 |
The why of Japans response | 350 |
Theories of power and protest | 358 |
Explaining the GE dilemma | 361 |
Mesonetworks and macrostructures | 369 |
The mesomacro connection | 371 |
Oita prefecture and Japan national growth and environmental key events 19551980 | 378 |
Pollution legislation at prefectural and national levels 19641985 | 383 |
References | 389 |
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