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Environmental Histories of Japan - Environment and Society in the Japanese Islands: From Prehistory to the Present. Edited by Bruce L. Batten and Philip C. Brown . Corvallis: Oregon State University Press, 2015. 291 pp. ISBN: 9780870718014 (paper). - Bad Water: Nature, Pollution, and Politics in Japan, 1870–1950. By Robert Stolz . Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2014. 288 pp. ISBN: 9780822356905 (cloth, also available in paper). - A Concise History of Japan. By Brett L. Walker . Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2015. 336 pp. ISBN: 9781107004184 (cloth, also available in paper).

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 June 2017

Aaron Skabelund
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The Journal of Asian Studies , Volume 76 , Issue 2 , May 2017 , pp. 529 - 535
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