"Japan's oceans demand our attention. Violent, prolific, and changeful, they define life and death on the archipelago: pushing the shore under the rush of tsunami, charging typhoon circulation, feeding millions, and seeding conflicts over territory and resources. And yet, Japan studies rem...

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Weitere Verfasser:	Hübner, Stefan (HerausgeberIn), Heé, Nadin (HerausgeberIn), Miller, Ian Jared 1970- (HerausgeberIn), Tsutsui, William M. 1963- (HerausgeberIn)
Format:	Buch
Sprache:	English
Veröffentlicht:	Honolulu University of Hawaiʻi Press [2024]
Schlagworte:	Ocean and civilization Marine resources / Japan Marine ecology / Japan Asian history
Zusammenfassung:	"Japan's oceans demand our attention. Violent, prolific, and changeful, they define life and death on the archipelago: pushing the shore under the rush of tsunami, charging typhoon circulation, feeding millions, and seeding conflicts over territory and resources. And yet, Japan studies remains largely beholden to a terrestrial view of the world that is at odds with the importance of the sea. This "terrestrial bias" also means that on those occasions when oceans are recognized they are most often presented as dividers or connectors-spaces in between rather than rich ecologies and meaningful sites. Oceanic Japan is meant to help readers re-envision Japanese history in order to show how the seas created the country that we know today. The book convenes a diverse, multinational, multidisciplinary group of scholars to expand the scope of Japan studies and the environmental humanities. The chapters draw from the broader turn to the sea-characterized by new oceanic and terraqueous perspectives-developing within our field and in areas such as Pacific history and Indian Ocean studies. Our vision is bifocal. On the one hand, we aim to reorient East Asian studies and Japan studies to the sea, underlining how oceans have shaped dynamics from the Tokugawa Era forward into the age of empire and the crisis of the Anthropocene. On the other hand, we argue for a more nuanced environmental approach within the burgeoning field of Oceanic studies. Seeing oceanic spaces as more than entrepots or political spheres requires thinking in new, often vertical, volumetric ways. Our chapters follow human and non-human actors to recognize the variegation of watery ecologies through winds, tides, coasts, seabeds, and currents such as the Kuroshio and Oyashio, which have always shaped life on the archipelago."
Beschreibung:	Includes bibliographical references and index
Beschreibung:	xv, 404 Seiten, 8 ungezählte Seiten Tafeln Illustrationen, Karten
ISBN:	9780824897680