@article{1470232,
      recid = {1470232},
      author = {Yokemoto, Masafumi, and Hayashi, Miho, and Shimizu,  Mayuko, and Fujiyoshi, Keiji,},
      title = {Environmental pollution and community rebuilding in Modern  Japan /},
      pages = {1 online resource (viii, 144 pages) :},
      abstract = {This book describes how modern industry affected people in  Japan and their communities by polluting their living  environment with toxic emissions. It also shows how the  populace endeavored not only to restore their once-clean  environment but also to rebuild communities that had been  damaged by pollution and its accompanying effects.  Environmental pollution is usually referred to in Japan as  kogai, public damage, meaning that such pollution not only  harms the physical environment -- air, water, soil, and the  human body -- but also destroys the social and personal  relationships in the polluted area. Those people who took  action recognized that industrial and economic development  had been given the highest national priority even at the  cost of their health and welfare. In this sense, anti-kogai  movements led them to alternative community development and  to rethinking what kind of environment and community they  wanted. This book also explores the efforts driven by  residents in several parts of Japan after the middle of the  twentieth century and the endeavors of museums and archives  as a memorial to those who suffered from the pollution and  for the prospect of a better society with a good  environment.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/1470232},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-99-3239-9},
}