The Roots of Japan's Environmental Policies

by Wong,Anny

• ISBN13: 9780815339502
• ISBN10: 081533950X
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2001-03-14
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

The study focuses on Japan's policies toward international environmental issues and includes case studies on whaling, deforestation in the tropics, and acid deposition in Asia.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements	vii
Abstract	ix
List of Tables	xi
List of Figures	xiii
List of Abbreviations	xv
Preface	xix
Introduction: The Global Environment and Japan	1	(24)
Objectives of this study	1	(4)
The global environment in international affairs: Japan's interests and goals	5	(8)
The case studies: whaling, deforestation in the tropics and acid deposition in Asia	13	(5)
Structure of the study	18	(7)
Theory and Methodology	25	(20)
Complex interdependence, regimes and two-level games	25	(8)
Decision making: the bureaucratic politics model and Japan's foreign policy	33	(3)
Methodology	36	(9)
The Global Environment in Japanese Politics and the Major Domestic Policy Actors	45	(44)
Evolution of Environmental issues in Japanese domestic politics	46	(4)
The Japanese government bureaucracy	50	(12)
Japanese politicians	62	(3)
Japanese business and industry	65	(4)
Non-governmental organizations	69	(5)
Japanese academia	74	(1)
``Think tanks'' or policy studies research institutes	75	(2)
The Japanese mass media	77	(2)
Summary	79	(10)
Whaling	89	(56)
Modern Whaling: a history and its present-day controversy	89	(2)
The whaling controversy and Japan's whaling policies	91	(1)
The international regime for whaling	92	(8)
History of modern Japanese whaling	100	(7)
U.S. domestic legislation: its impact on the international regime on whaling and Japan's whaling policy in the 1980s	107	(4)
Japan's policy on whaling	111	(3)
Policy actors in Japan's whaling policy	114	(12)
Chapter conclusion	126	(19)
Deforestation in the Tropics	145	(56)
Tropical forests: timber source, biodiversity storehouse, carbon sink and a home to many	145	(2)
Tropical deforestation and Japan's policy responses	147	(3)
The international regime for the conservation of forests in the tropics	150	(12)
Japan and forest destruction in Southeast Asia	162	(11)
Japan's policy responses to deforestation in the tropics	173	(4)
Policy actors in Japan's policy on deforestation in the tropics	177	(10)
Chapter conclusion	187	(14)
Acid Deposition in Asia	201	(56)
Acid rain: definition, dangers and characteristics	202	(1)
Acid rain in Asia and Japan's policy responses	203	(4)
Acid rain control in Europe and North America	207	(10)
China: number one pollution source in Northeast Asia	217	(11)
Japan's policy on acid rain control in Asia	228	(3)
Policy actors in Japan's acid rain policy	231	(8)
Chapter conclusion	239	(18)
Conclusion	257	(10)
Policy making in Japan and the international environment	258	(9)
Appendix: List of Interviewes	267	(8)
Bibliography	275	(46)
Index	321