Industrial Pollution in Japan

Edited by Ui Jun.

1,050 yen.
Tokyo: United Nations University Press, 1992.

This book discusses major environmental issues confronted by Japan during one hundred years of modernization, including the Ashio copper mine incident, the arsenic milk poisoning incident, Minamata disease, and the Miike coal-mine explosion. One chapter is dedicated to the social structures of pollution victims. In his conclusion Dr. Ui discusses the importance of the recognition of basic human rights in the prevention of pollution problems, as well as the need for citizen cooperation that is too often excluded by professionalism. He summarizes problems inherent in the roles played by industrial corporations and governmental organizations, science and technology and the mass media in the case of industrial pollution in Japan, and suggests possibilities for change.

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