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Loving and loathing wildlife in Japan : four animal conservation paradigms /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Brecher, W. Puck (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Language Notes:In English.
Published: Honolulu : University of Hawaii Press, [2026]
Subjects:
Wildlife conservation > Japan.
Environmental management > Japan.
Human ecology > Japan.
Environmental justice > Japan.
SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Ecology.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Japan's Biodiversity Boondoggle
  • Wildlife in Pre-Meiji Culture
  • The Bear Hunter Abides: Material Spirituality in Traditional Japanese Hunting
  • Beneficial and Useful: Early Zoology and Its Applications
  • Hunting, Gun Culture, and Wildlife Use
  • Uses of the Useless: The Japanese Wolf as Human Invention
  • Parks, Monuments, and Wild Birds: Early Experiments in Conservation
  • Later Conservation: The Allied Occupation and Its Legacy
  • Animal Welfare (Dōbutsu aigo): Paradoxical Paradigm for Wildlife Conservation
  • Conservation in Confinement: Japan's Captive Wildlife Industry
  • Aigo and Wildlife Conservation: An Edifice of Non-Change
  • Appendix: Japanese Wildlife Currently Listed as Extinct, Critically Endangered, or Endangered.