Edited Jun Ui

PUBLICATION DATA:

ISBN-10: 92-808-0548-7,
ISBN-13: 978-92-808-0548-2

LANGUAGE:

English

PAGES:

198

PUBLISHER:

United Nations University Press

PUBLISHED:

April 1992

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.