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This series focuses on the broad field of Japanese Studies, aimed at the worldwide English language scholarly market, published in Tokyo in English. Each Handbook contains an average of 20 newly written contributions on various aspects of the topic, which together comprise an up-to-date survey of use to scholars and students. The focus is on Humanities and Social Sciences.

Handbook of Japan's Environmental Law, Policy, and Politics (Edited by Hiroshi Ohta)

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This handbook offers an exposition of the contemporary status of Japan’s environmental law, policy, and politics. The extent of ecological quandaries explored within this tome is expansive, encompassing issues pertinent to both natural and synthetic ecosystems, natural resources, and inorganic materials. Each chapter’s temporal framework corresponds to the postwar period, following the enactment of environmental statutes and the initiation of administrative institutionalization, situated approximately in the early 1970s. The central inquiry addressed in this compendium pertains to the extent to which prevailing environmental statutes and policies have contributed to the enhancement or conservation of Japan’s natural and synthetic ecosystems, as well as the resilience of its natural resources. The authors within this volume undertake an analysis to discern the causal factors behind the quandaries by ascribing them to the existence or absence of enforceable regulations, public involvement in policy formulation processes, bureaucratic fragmentation, pioneering regulatory measures, institutional obstacles, regulatory co-optation, rational cost-effective methodologies, scientific understanding, scientific communities, ecological commerce, environmental non-governmental organizations (NGOs), and holistic ecological plans and programs. Pertinent sections raise an inquiry concerning Japan’s ecological diplomacy, inquiring whether Japan serves as a leader, bystander, or obstructionist.

December, 2024, 388p. Hardback

ISBN: 9784909286369

¥28,875 (tax included)

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Hiroshi Ohta

Hiroshi Ohta is is Professor at the School of International Liberal Studies (SILS), Waseda University. He received his PhD in International Relations from the Department of Political Science of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences of Columbia University. He is Earth System Governance Lead Faculty and currently Japan Association of International Relations Councilor. Some recent works include: “The Analysis of Japan’s Energy and Climate Policy from the Aspect of Anticipatory Governance,” Energies (2020); “EU and Japanese climate and energy security” with Katja Biedenkopf, in Emil Kirchner and Han Dorussen eds., EU-Japan Security Cooperation: Trends and Prospects (2019); and Comparative Politics about the Environmental and Energy Policies of Major States: Make a Choice for A Sustainable Society (in Japanese) (2016).

Contributors

Andrew Chapman, Associate Professor, International Institute for Carbon Neutral Energy Research (I2CNER), and the Graduate School of Economics, Kyushu University; Fujiwara Takashi, Senior Researcher, Forest Economic Research Institute and Organizing Committee Chair of the Woodmiles Forum; Hori Masami, Deputy Director, Natural Environment Division, Tokyo Metropolitan Government (TMG); Ishii Atsushi, Associate Professor, Center for Northeast Asian Studies, Tohoku University; Kameyama Yasuko, Professor, Graduate School of Frontier Sciences, the University of Tokyo; Kanie Norichika, Professor, Graduate School of Media Governance, Keio University; Tarek Katramiz, Project Assistant Professor, Graduate School of Media and Governance, Keio University; Florentine Koppenborg, Postdoctoral fellow, School of Public Policy (Hochschule für Politik, HfP), Technical University of Munich; Koyano Mari, Professor of Public International Law, Graduate School of Law, Hokkaido University; Kubo Haruka, Professor at Center for Education in General Studies, Konan University; Masuzawa Yoko, Associate Professor, Graduate School of Environmental Studies, Nagoya University; Matsuoka Shunji, Professor, Graduate School of Asia-Pacific Studies (GSAPS), General Manager of Waseda University Fukushima Hamadoori Future Research Center, and Director of Waseda Resilience Research Institute (WRRI); Mori Katsuhiko, Professor of International Relations, College of Liberal Arts and Director, Social Science Research Institute, International Christian University; Mori Satoko, Professor, Meisei University, Tokyo; Ōkubo Ayako, Associate Professor at Tokai University; Ōkubo Noriko; Sakaguchi Isao, Professor of International Relations, Faculty of Law, Gakushuin University; Sanada Yasuhiro, Associate Professor, Waseda Institute for Global Governance, Waseda University; Takao Yasuo, Adjunct Senior Research Fellow, Curtin University; Tōi Akiko, Professor, Department of Environmental Sciences, College of Agriculture, Food and Environmental Sciences, Rakuno Gakuen University; Watanabe Tomoaki, Professor, Department of Socio-Environmental Studies, Fukuoka Institute of Technology.

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Introduction: Civil Society in Japan (Ohta Hiroshi);

Chapter 1 - Conceptualizations: The Idea of Civil Society in Japan (Simon Avenell);

Part 1: The Environment and Development, Environmental Foreign Policy, and Environmental Governance: 1. The Sustainable Development Goals and Japan (Tarek Katramiz and Kanie Norichika); 2. Japan’s Environmental ODA (Mori Katsuhiko); 3. Japan's Law and Policy on Environmental Impact Assessment: Features of Current Legal Systems and Challenges in the Context of International Law (Koyano Mari and Masuzawa Yoko); 4. Public Participation in Environmental Matters in Japan (Okubo Noriko); 5. The Role of Japan’s Environmental NGOs in Environmental Governance (Mori Satoko);

Part 2 Natural Environmental Policies and Resources Management: 6. Biodiversity Law and Policy in Japan (Tōi Akiko); 7. Japan’s Forest Policy (Fujiwara Takashi and Mori Katsuhiko); 8. Japan’s Fisheries Management Policy (Sakaguchi Isao); 9. Japan and Whaling (Sanada Yasuhiro); 10. Japan and the Antarctic Ecosystem (Okubo Ayako);

Part 3 Atmospheric Environmental Policies: 11. Japan’s Air Pollution Policies and Diplomacy (Ishii Atsushi); 12. Japan’s Policy on Stratospheric Ozone Depletion (Kubo Haruka). 13. Japan’s Climate Change Policy (Kameyama Yasuko);

Part 4 Nuclear Safety Policy, Disaster Management, and Industrial Waste Management: 14. Post-3.11 Nuclear Safety Regulation (Florentine Koppenborg); 15. 1F (Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant) Decommissioning Governance and “Place of Dialogue”: Comparison with TMI-2 (Three Mile Island Nuclear Power Plant, Unit 2) (Matsuoka Shunji); 16. The Contested Governance of Japanese Industrial Wastes: Policy Disputes Embedded in Bureaucratic Sectionalism (Watanabe Tomoaki);

Part 5 Energy Transition, Subnational Environmental Policy and Diplomacy: 17. The Energy Transition in Japan (Andrew Chapman); 18. From Smog to Climate Change: The Evolution of Tokyo Metropolitan Government’s Air Pollution Policies (Hori Masami); 19. The Role of Local Governments in Environmental Globalization (Takao Yasuo); Appendix: Chronology of Major Reforms in the Japanese Political Systems since the 1990s;

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