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Author Strong, Kenneth, 1925-1990

Title Ox against the storm : a biography of Tanaka Shozo - Japan's conservationist pioneer / Kenneth Strong
Published Folkestone : Japan Library, 1995, ©1977

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Description 1 online resource (xiii, 231 pages) : illustrations
Series Classic paperbacks
Contents Book Cover; Half-Title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Illustrations; 1: Village headman's son; 2: Feud in a fief; 3: Murder on a frontier; 4: Totchin; 5: Democrat versus developer; 6: Gift of a priceless jewel'; 7: Pollution: the prelude; 8: Pollution: growth of a crisis; 9: To kill the people is to kill the nation'; 10: Appeal to the Highest; 11: New directions; 12: Murder of a village; 13: The care of rivers is the Way of Heaven'; 14: 'Over withered fields'; 15: Jottings; Epilogue; Selected Bibliography
Summary Recounts the lifelong struggle of the 19th-century pioneer environmental conservationist
Analysis Environment Conservation
Japan
Notes Originally published: Folkestone: Paul Norbury, 1977
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 230-231)
Notes Print version record
Subject Tanaka, Shōzō, 1841-1913.
SUBJECT Tanaka, Shōzō, 1841-1913 fast
Subject Conservationists -- Japan -- Biography
Environmental policy -- Japan -- Watarase River Watershed -- History
Copper mines and mining -- Environmental aspects -- Japan -- Watarase River Watershed -- History
Water -- Pollution -- Japan -- Watarase River Watershed -- History
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- General.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Real Estate -- General.
Conservationists
Copper mines and mining -- Environmental aspects
Environmental policy
Water -- Pollution
Japan
Japan -- Watarase River Watershed
Genre/Form Electronic books
Biographies
History
Biographies.
Biographies.
Form Electronic book
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