Re-shaping the Modern Nation
Bonus:
What does "Creative Destruction" mean?
One of the many indigenous groups that lived on the island of Hokkaido before Japanese settlers arrived.
The Ainu
This city was the largest city in Japan and the World during the Edo period.
Edo
Bonus:
What is Minamata Disease?
Incident in which 23 crewmen aboard a tuna fishing boat were exposed to radioactive fallout due to hydrogen bomb testing by the United States in 1954.
Lucky Dragon #5 Incident
Bonus:
What happened in the Meiji Restoration?
The process of moving to a land, settling it, and taking its resources while displacing and replacing the people who were originally there.
Settler Colonialism
Human excrement used as fertilizer in Early Modern Japan, especially in the city of Edo.
Night Soil
being aware of and mitigating waste production. And it was “a way to avoid the desperation of those years when the country was starved of resources, and to preserve all of the gains that had since been made"
Waste Consciousness
What is the Triple Disaster of 2011.
The earthquake, tsunami, and nuclear disaster in Northeastern Japan on March 11, 2011.
From 1871-1873, Japanese diplomats went across various western countries in order to learn from western cities. They brought home various implements and schools of thought.
Stripping away outward markers of indigenous identity in efforts of assimilation to the dominant race
Ethnic Negation
beliefs of cultural uniqueness and superiority arising from supposed “harmony” with nature; often based on romanticized ideas of ecological equilibrium and Sustainability
Eco-Nationalism
Complex and largely unanticipated interrelationships among advanced technologies, idiosyncratic social practices, and naturally occurring agencies.The unintended interactions between industry and humans/ the environment.
Hybrid Causation
What occurs in the Japanese coastal town of Taiji every year, leading to international outcry?
The Taiji Dolphin hunt
What children's story was a satirical piece written in 1924 that warned against blind westernization and nature’s ability to fight back.
The Restaurant of Many Orders
The colonial logic that rulers are bringing civilization to the colonies and uplifting colonial people, justifying the colonial project
Civilizing Mission
Bonus:
Define: "Sustainability"
The accumulation of toxins from smaller species in the food chain, increasing the further up the food chain based on how much of the toxic substance is consumed.
Bioaccumulation
A more modern form of deep sea whaling that’s off shore and based on a boat.
Pelagic Whaling
The belief that man is not a part of a whole, but exempt from the whole. Nature is meant to be used to benefit man
Ecological Modernity
Un-industrialized "no-man's land" land that was used as a justification for colonization
Terra Nullius
Marx’s term for the disruption to the sustainable relationship between humans and the environment caused by the arrival of capitalist modernity.
Metabolic Rift
The fragile part of human development where limbs and organs are being formed, and if contaminated with toxic material can lead to debilitating effects on the child's body.
Fetal Organogenesis
This is a term to describe the general opposition and resistance to nuclear power expressed by the Japanese public during the 1960s and 1970s that stemmed from the catastrophic occurrences of Hiroshima, Nagasaki, and the Lucky Dragon No. 5 incident.
Nuclear Allergy