Troubled Natures: Waste, Environment, Japan 9780824860776

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Table of contents :
Contents
Acknowledgments
Chapter 1. Introduction: Japan’s Waste Shadow
Chapter 2. Perils of Proximity: An Invisible Scourge
Chapter 3. Mediated Anxieties: Nowhere to Hide
Chapter 4. The Cult(ures) of Japanese Nature
Chapter 5. Tokyo’s Vermin Menace
Chapter 6. Pure Obsession: Pollution, Outcasts, and Exclusion
Chapter 7. Growth, Sex, Fertility, and Decline
Chapter 8. Constructing Sustainable Japan
Conclusions
Notes
References
Index
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