Industrial Pollution in Japan

Industrial Pollution in Japan PDF Author: Jun Ui
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Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 208

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Book Description
This publication describes and analyses the negative side effects of Japan's rapid technological and industrial development since the Meiji period. It examines the socio-economic and technological causes of ecological damage through case studies of several examples of industrial pollution in the process of Japan's modernization, including the Ashio copper mine case, the Morinaga milk arsenic poisoning incident, Minamata Disease and the Miike coal mine explosion.