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    Yukikaze’s War

    Brett L. Walker

    When World War II ended, Yukikaze was the only elite Imperial Japanese Navy destroyer still afloat. Tracing her journey through the treacherous ocean battlefields of the Pacific War, this unique…

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    A Family History of Illness: Memory as Medicine

    Brett L. Walker

    While in the ICU with a near-fatal case of pneumonia, Brett Walker was asked, Do you have a family history of illness? -a standard and deceptively simple question that for…

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    The Conquest of Ainu Lands: Ecology and Culture in Japanese Expansion,1590-1800

    Brett L. Walker

    A monograph that places Ainu - the native people living in Ezo, the northernmost island of the Japanese archipelago - at the center of an exploration of Japanese expansion during…

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    A Concise History of Japan

    Brett L. Walker (Montana State University)

    A Concise History of Japan integrates the pageantry of Japanese history with today’s environmental concerns, including climate change, rising sea levels, violent Pacific storms, and devastating tsunami. It explores the…

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    A Concise History of Japan

    Brett L. Walker (Montana State University)

    A Concise History of Japan integrates the pageantry of Japanese history with today’s environmental concerns, including climate change, rising sea levels, violent Pacific storms, and devastating tsunami. It explores the…

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    The Lost Wolves of Japan

    Brett L. Walker

    Japanese once revered the wolf as Oguchi no Magami, or Large-Mouthed Pure God, but as Japan began its modern transformation wolves lost their otherworldly status and became animals that needed…

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    The Lost Wolves of Japan

    Brett L. Walker

    In pre-modern Japan, wolves were worshipped as sacred; with the spread of rabies in the 18th century, they became feared and hunted; by 1905 wolves had disappeared from the country…

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    Toxic Archipelago: A History of Industrial Disease in Japan

    Brett L. Walker

    Explores the relationship between the causes of colossal toxic pollution and the manner in which pain caused by pollution insults porous human bodies

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    A Yankee in Hokkaido: The Life of William Smith Clark

    John M. Maki

    A biography of diplomat William Smith Clark, an exponent of the modernization of Japan in the nineteenth century and founder of the University of Massachusetts at Amherst.

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    Japan at Nature’s Edge: The Environmental Context of a Global Power

    Explores the relationship between Japan’s history, culture, and physical environment. It greatly expands the focus of previous work on Japanese modernization by examining Japan’s role in global environmental transformation and…

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    Japan at Nature’s Edge: The Environmental Context of a Global Power

    This is a timely collection of essays that explores the relationship between Japan’s history, culture, and physical environment. It greatly expands the focus of previous work on Japanese modernization by…

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