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The 1897 Commission of Inquiry on the Ashio Mining Pollution: from Laissez-Faire to the State Management of an Environmental Crisis

The Ashio copper mine case was one of the most important ecological and social crisis of modern Japan. Due to the scale of the environmental issues and of the protest movement, in 1896, the central authorities were forced to get involved, after a decade of laissez-faire. On March 24, 1897, an Ashio...

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Dans:	URI:https://journals.openedition.org/cjs,
Auteur principal:	Pitteloud, Cyrian
Format:	Article ou chapitre numérique
Langue:	Anglais
Publié:	Cipango - French Journal of Japanese Studies 2023
Sujets:	Ashio Commission d’enquête pollution mine de cuivre environnement investigation Commission copper mine environment
Accès en ligne:	Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM

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description	The Ashio copper mine case was one of the most important ecological and social crisis of modern Japan. Due to the scale of the environmental issues and of the protest movement, in 1896, the central authorities were forced to get involved, after a decade of laissez-faire. On March 24, 1897, an Ashio pollution investigation Commission was established by the Ministry of Agriculture and Commerce, in charge of this matter. If the measures taken by the Government represented a step towards the supervision of mining activities, the initial purpose was to protect this industry. The analysis of the minutes of the Commission and of the governmental decisions tells us a great deal about how the authorities back then handled an environmental crisis, as well as what was at stake in the exploitation of a natural resource.
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title	The 1897 Commission of Inquiry on the Ashio Mining Pollution: from Laissez-Faire to the State Management of an Environmental Crisis
title_short	The 1897 Commission of Inquiry on the Ashio Mining Pollution: from Laissez-Faire to the State Management of an Environmental Crisis
title_full	The 1897 Commission of Inquiry on the Ashio Mining Pollution: from Laissez-Faire to the State Management of an Environmental Crisis
title_fullStr	The 1897 Commission of Inquiry on the Ashio Mining Pollution: from Laissez-Faire to the State Management of an Environmental Crisis
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The 1897 Commission of Inquiry on the Ashio Mining Pollution: from Laissez-Faire to the State Management of an Environmental Crisis

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