The Roots of Japan's Environmental Policies.

Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Abstract -- List of Tables -- List of Figures -- List of Abbreviations -- Preface -- Chapter 1: Introduction: The Global Environment and Japan -- Objectives of this study -- The global environment in international affairs: Japan's interests and goals -- The case studies: whaling, deforestation in the tropics and acid deposition in Asia -- Whaling -- Deforestation in the tropics -- Acid deposition in Asia. -- Structure of the study -- Notes -- Chapter 2: Theory and Methodology -- Complex interdependence, regimes and two-level games -- "Complex interdependence" -- Regimes, issue areas, and national interests -- Two-level games theory model -- Decision making: the bureaucratic politics model and Japan's foreign policy -- The bureaucratic politics model -- Decision making and Japan's foreign policy -- Methodology -- Notes -- Chapter 3: The Global Environment in Japanese Politics and the Major Domestic Policy Actors -- Evolution of environmental issues in Japanese domestic politics -- The Japanese government bureaucracy -- Japanese government bureaucracy -- Environment Agency o f Japan (JEA) -- Ministry o f Finance (MoF). -- M inistry o f International Trade an d Industry -- Ministry o f Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry -- Ministry o f Foreign Affairs -- Japanese politicians -- Japanese business and industry -- Non-governmental organizations -- Japanese academia -- Think tanks" or policy studies research institutes -- The Japanese mass media -- Summary -- Notes -- Chapter 4: Whaling -- Modern whaling: a history and its present-day controversy -- The whaling controversy and Japan's whaling policies -- The international regime for whaling -- ICRW and IWC: purpose and organization -- From "whalers' club" to anti-whaling lobby.

Passing the IWC commercial whaling moratorium and its aftermath -- History of modern Japanese whaling -- Early Japanese whaling -- The rise and growth of modern Japanese whaling until WorldWar II -- Post-World War II Japanese whaling -- Japanese research whaling, post-moratorium STCW and the whalemeat trade -- U.S. domestic legislation: its impact on the international regime on whaling and Japan's whaling policy in the 1980s -- Anti-whaling legislation in the United States -- U.S. laws and Japan's whaling policy -- Japan's policy on whaling -- Objectives and rationale -- Policy actors in Japan's whaling policy -- The governmental actors -- The non-governmental actors -- Chapter conclusion -- Notes -- Chapter 5: Deforestation in the Tropics -- Tropical forests: timber source, biodiversity storehouse carbon sink and a home to many -- Tropical deforestation and Japan's policy responses -- The international regime for the conservation of forests in the tropics -- The International Tropical Timber Organization (ITTO) -- Tropical Forestry Action Plan (TFAP) -- Tropical timber ban in the European Community -- Towards a global forest convention -- "Non-binding Statement of Forest Principles." -- Certification and eco-labeling schemes -- The Commission on Sustainable Development and beyond -- Japan and forest destruction in Southeast A sia -- Japan's import of tropical hardwood from Southeast Asia -- The Indonesian log export ban and Japan's tropical timber trade -- A new emphasis on reforestation and sustainable tropical timber -- Japan's policy responses to deforestation in the tro pics -- Objectives and rationale -- Policy actors in Japan's policy on deforestation in the tropics -- The governmental actors -- The non-governmental policy actors -- Chapter conclusion -- Notes -- Chapter 6: Acid Deposition in Asia.

Acid rain: definition, dangers and characteristics -- Acid rain in Asia and Japan's policy responses -- Acid rain control in Europe and North America -- The European experience -- The North American experience -- China: number one pollution source in Northeast Asia -- The Chinese environment juggernaut -- Japan and acid rain control in China -- Japan's policy on acid rain control in Asia -- Objectives and rationale -- Policy actors in Japan's acid rain policy -- The governmental actors -- The non-governmental actors -- Chapter conclusion -- Notes -- Chapter 7: Conclusion -- Policy making in Japan and the international environment -- Appendix: List of Interviewees -- Bibliography -- Index.

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