Environmental Pollution and Community Rebuilding in Modern Japan

Masafumi Yokemoto, Osaka Metropolitan UniversityMiho Hayashi, Foundation for Environmental Rehabilitation and Redevelopment of MizushimaMayuko Shimizu, Ryukoku UniversityKeiji Fujiyoshi, Otemon Gakuin University

• A Brief History of Environmental Pollution in Japan.- Ashio Copper Mine Mineral Pollution Incident: The Starting Point of Environmental Pollution History in Japan.- Regeneration of Pollution-devastated Areas Through Alternative Food Networks: A Case Study of Organic Farming by Minamata Disease Patients and Their Supporters.- How Do We Cope with Pollution, a Form of Environmental Damage? Learning from a Community Devastated by Itai-itai Disease.- Air Pollution Lawsuit and Community Development for Environmental Regeneration: The Case of Mizushima District in Kurashiki City, Okayama Prefecture.- Victims of Drug-Induced Suffering: Their Movement and its Research Archives.- Health Damage and Politics of Kanemi Oil Poisoning: Industrial Food Pollution and the Political Void.-  Damage Relief and Reconstruction Policy in the Wake of the Fukushima Nuclear Accident.- Network of Museums and Archival Centers for Remembering Environmental Pollution.