Environmental Protest and Citizen Politics in Japan

McKean, Margaret A.

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“…Conclusive results were obtained, by a researcher who worked for Chisso Co. Using secretly obtained Chisso Co.'s waste water instead of sample from Minamata Bay, his experiments conclusively proved that Chisso Co.'s wastes could produce Minamata disease in cats, with symptom identical to those of human victims of the disease (McKean, 1981, pp. 51–52).…”

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Making implicit CSR explicit? Considering the continuity of Japanese “micro moral unity”

Horiguchi¹

2021

Business Ethics Env & Resp

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While there are many studies that address how well Japanese companies have adopted explicit CSR practices, our understanding of their own views on such practices is still limited, particularly of the difference in their views before and after the process of making implicit CSR explicit. The present research thus aims to address this apparent change by providing comparative case studies of two Japanese companies selected from two different time periods. The findings indicate there is a continuity observable in the mindset of these companies not a change. This contradicts

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Section: Case Studiesmentioning

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Making implicit CSR explicit? Considering the continuity of Japanese “micro moral unity”

Horiguchi¹

2021

Business Ethics Env & Resp

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“…National forestswhile not intensively harvested in recent years because imported wood dominates the marketsoften have been managed with little attention to biodiversity, logged to produce revenues to cover agency deficits, and developed in ways that emphasize rural economic development (Handa, 1988;Natori, 1997;Sugimura, 1987;Woo, 1990). Environmental interest groups generally have not been very effective advocates for preservation, in part because their focus has been much more on pollution issues than on nature conservation (Knight, 2010c;Mason 1999Mason , 2014McKean, 1981;Oyadomari, 1985Oyadomari, , 1989. Moreover, the prevalence of top-down government approaches to nature conservation has meant that opportunities for local participation in decision making have been severely constrained (Hiwasaki, 2005).…”

Section: Citizen Engagement and Shirakami Sanchi Managementmentioning

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“…Citizens in the Shirakami region and ecological protection advocates throughout Japan were also inspired and empowered by activities taking place in the far northern Shiretoko region of Hokkaido around this time. In the Shiretoko case, there was more direct local community organizingcomparable to the many "homegrown" groups that successfully protested pollution in the early 1970s (Broadbent, 1998;Mason, 1999, forthcoming;McKean, 1981) in curtailing logging than was the case for Shirakami Sanchi. In Shiretoko, a local mayoral election turned on the issue, and a local National Trust chapter was formed and made key land purchases (Kihara, 1989;Takao, 2001).…”

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Preservation and preemption in Japan’s Shirakami Sanchi World Heritage Area

Mason

2015

Management of Environmental Quality: An International Journal

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Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine developments in Japan with regard to protected-area management. The focus is on ecological protection, citizen engagement, and the traditional users of the Shirakami Sanchi World Heritage Area. Design/methodology/approach – The study is based on an extensive review of literature, interviews with key actors, and field observations. Findings – This study of Shirakami Sanchi World Heritage Area, an area of ancient beech forest in northern Japan whose ecological integrity was threatened by construction of a forest road in the 1980s, points to a successful case of ecological preservation and an expanded governmental commitment to citizen engagement in protected-area planning, accompanied by a marginalization of the small number of remaining traditional users of the forest’s resources. Research limitations/implications – This study points to the challenges inherent in balancing civic engagement, ecological protection, cultural heritage, and administrative expediency in protected-areas management. The findings are directed toward researchers engaged with issues surrounding management of parks and protected areas. Practical implications – Park and protected-areas managers can learn from this experience about balancing ecosystem protection, civic engagement, inclusion of traditional users, and administrative optimization in planning and management of protected areas. Originality/value – The field elements of the study are original contributions. The paper will be of value to scholars and practitioners involved with protected-area management.

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“…In Japan, direct sunlight is considered a primary requirement for residential quality of life, houses are routinely oriented towards the sun and an important part of the daily routine is to hang bedding out in the sun to air. The construction of high-rise condominiums in residential areas precipitated a wave of local opposition movements that drew on the energy and expertise of the wider environmental movement of the time (McKean, 1981;Ishizuka and Ishida, 1988, p. 30). To defuse the crisis, the government passed an amendment to the BSL in 1972 that allowed local governments to create height control zones with a maximum building height of 10 metres that could be designated as a supplementary layer over other land use zones.…”

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Urban Renaissance as Intensification: Building Regulation and the Rescaling of Place Governance in Tokyo’s High-rise Manshon Boom

2009

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During the past decade, Tokyo has seen a massive building boom, despite a prolonged economic slump since 1990. Since the 1980s, central government has enacted a steady stream of building code changes that allow much larger buildings. This paper argues that the recent wave of private investment in high-rise intensification has been instigated by these changes to building regulations, so that the form of urban restructuring and the distribution of winners and losers in the process are shaped by the central state, a reverse of the previous trend of decentralisation of planning powers. This restructuring of central/ local government relations can be understood as a creative rescaling of governance power that disrupted established democratic institutional frameworks of decision-making and conflict resolution. This study highlights both the centrality of land assets in Japan’s developmental capitalism and the continuing importance of the distinctive institutional legacies of the developmental state in structuring Japanese urban governance.

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Environmental Protest and Citizen Politics in Japan

Cited by 156 publications

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Making implicit CSR explicit? Considering the continuity of Japanese “micro moral unity”

Making implicit CSR explicit? Considering the continuity of Japanese “micro moral unity”

Preservation and preemption in Japan’s Shirakami Sanchi World Heritage Area

Urban Renaissance as Intensification: Building Regulation and the Rescaling of Place Governance in Tokyo’s High-rise Manshon Boom

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