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Constructing Civil Society in Japan
| Author | Koichi Hasegawa |
| Date | 2004 |
| Classification | 4.21.0.00/19 (JAPAN - GENERAL) |
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From the publication:
Stratification and Inequality Series The Center for the Study of Social Stratification and Inequality. Tohoku University, Japan Constructing Civil Society in Japan Koichi Hasegawa is a professor of sociology in the Graduate School of Arts & Letters. Tohoku University in Sendai, Japan, where he teaches courses on social conflicts, social movements, social change and environmental sociology. This book brings together his research into a range of environmental issues and conflicts, including bullet train noise pollution, nuclear facilities and renewable energy. A founding member of the Japanese Association for Environmental Sociology, he has edited both the Japanese Sociological Review and the Journal Environmental Sociology. Other publications include Sociology of Conflict (2004) and A Choice for Post-Nuclear Society (1996) both in Japanese. Cover illustration: The largest wind farm in Japan, located on the Shimokita Peninsula. A concentration of nuclear facilities once earned it the title the 'nuclear peninsula'. Its strong and steady winds are now being harnessed and changing this image. Photograph by Asahi Shimbun.
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