Oceans and the Environment of Early Modern Japan
by
Jakobina K. Arch
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2018
Today, Japan defends its controversial whaling expeditions by invoking tradition�but what was the historical reality? In examining the techniques and impacts of whaling during the Tokugawa period (1603�1868), Jakobina Arch shows that the organized, shore-based whaling that first developed during...