Japan

Preface Illustrations Maps Introduction Chapter 1 Japan the Place Japan today; Geological process: geological pre-history, archipelagic history; Global Location: Japan's position in Eurasia, ambient ocean currents, north-south length, some human consequences Chapter 2 Forager Society Environmental context: sea level, temperature and precipitation; Early arrivals (pre-pottery); Jomon culture (pottery): perplexities of the onset, Jomon overall, regarding ambiguities of society and culture; Recapitulation Chapter 3 Early agricultural society to 600 CE Regarding agriculture: forager-agriculture comparison, early-later agriculture comparison, paddy culture - the technique, paddy culture - its extent; Agriculture: Early manifestations: general observations, Jomon agricultural practices; Yayoi: the beginning of fully developed agriculture in Japan: background and beginnings, some socio-cultural conundrums: Yayoi and beyond c. 200- 600CE: Later Yayoi society, Kofun, environmental ramifications to 600 CE; Recapitulation:Chapter 4 Early agricultural society, 600-1250 Regarding deforestation: logging, agricultural land clearance; Formation of a central elite, 600- 850: capital cities, the new architecture, control and exploitation of the hinterland; consolidation of the margins; Environmental ramifications of the Ritsuryo order: regarding the center, regarding the realm; The later Ritsuryo centuries, 850-1250: intra-elite changes, changes in elite- producer relations, changes in producer organization and practice; Environmental ramifications of later Ritsuryo developments: renewal of agricultural growth, changing center periphery relations, urbanism - two lesser examples; Recapitulation Chapter 5 Intensive agricultural society, 1250-1650 Geography; The elite: politics of disorder and reconsolidation, 1250-1650: the final decades of diarchy (1250-1330), the era of disarray and disorder (1330-1550), the period of reconsolidation (1550-1650); The producer populace: growth in scale and complexity: human-pathogen relations, elite-producer relations, producer organization and practice; Trends in agricultural technique: regarding fertilizer, water management, noteworthy new crops; Social and environmental effects of technological change: effects of deforestation, effects of agricultural intensification, other matters; Recapitulation Chapter 6 Intensive agricultural society, 1650-1890 The elite: politics of stability, rupture and reorientation: Bakuhan structure and limitations, the foreign menace (1790-1860), political restructuring (1860-90): The producer-populace: growth, stasis and change: human pathogen relations, elite-producer relations, producer organization and practice; Trends in technology: mining, forestry, fisheries, agriculture; Recapitulation Chapter 7 Imperial industrialism, 1890-1945 Some preliminaries: on the global resource, on 'packing and stacking', on 1890 as starting date, on 'imperial industrialism' as a temporary category, on 'state' vs. 'elite'; Affairs of state: domestic politics, foreign relations; Society and economy: demographics, commerce and industry, urban and rural society; Technology and the environment: mining, manufacturing, fisheries, agriculture, forestry; Recapitulation Chapter 8 Entrepreneurial industrialism, 1945 to today Socio-economic history: a summary: the years of recovery (1945-55), the boom years (1955-85), after the boom, 1985- today): Demographic trends: population estimates, urbanization, factors in demographic growth; Material consumption: space usage, other material consumption; Technology and the environment: mining, manufacturing, fisheries, agriculture, forestry; Recapitulation Epilogue: a recapitulation and final thoughts Appendices Bibliography Index