Arcadia
Creating Safety, Courting Disaster on the Lower Shinano River, Japan
Engineering the Lower Shinano River in northeastern Japan expanded the risk of other flood and tsunami damage.
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Perspectives
Men and Nature: Hegemonic Masculinities and Environmental Change
The essays in this collection explore how masculine roles, identities, and practices shape human relationships with the more-than-human world.
Exhibition chapter
Defining Wilderness—Japanese | Wilderness Babel
This chapter of the “Wilderness Babel” exhibition, written by MSc student Natasha Yamamoto, looks at how wilderness may be expressed and understood in Japanese.
Perspectives
New Histories of Pacific Whaling
This volume provides new histories of Pacific whaling from untold perspectives.
Perspectives Article
Whaling at the Margins: Drift Whales, Ainu Laborers, and the Japanese State on the Nineteenth- Century Okhotsk Coast
Noell Wilson details Japanese attempts to integrate modern-day Hokkaido into the Tokugawa political sphere via drift-whale policy.
Perspectives Article
Nineteenth-Century Japanese Whaling and Early Territorial Expansion in the Pacific
Jakobina Arch contrasts the modern Japanese whaling industry with expansionist imperial Meiji regime policies.
Perspectives Article
Multiplicities of Japanese Whaling: A Case Study of Baird’s-Beaked- Whaling and its Foodways in Chiba Prefecture, Eastern Japan
Akamine Jun explores foodways of whale meat in Japan, specifically detailing Baird’s-beaked- whaling in eastern Japan.
Perspectives
New Histories of Pacific Whaling – Revised Edition
This volume provides new histories of Pacific whaling from untold perspectives.
Perspectives Article
Whaling at the Margins: Drift Whales, Ainu Laborers, and the Japanese State on the Nineteenth-Century Okhotsk Coast
Noell Wilson details Japanese attempts to integrate modern-day Hokkaido into the Tokugawa political sphere via drift-whale policy.
Perspectives Article
Nineteenth-Century Japanese Whaling and Early Territorial Expansion in the Pacific
Jakobina Arch contrasts the modern Japanese whaling industry with expansionist imperial Meiji regime policies.