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63 In addition to the other Japanese works cited in the notes and bibliography, two pioneering books worthy
of mention are Iinuma Kenji, Kankyō rekishigaku to wa nani ka, and Toyama Shūzō, Shizen to ningen to no
kankeishi. For a more detailed discussion of the three series mentioned in this paragraph, see Bruce L. Batten
and Philip C. Brown, “Introduction: Green Perspectives on the Japanese Past,” 10–12.
64 Umehara Takeshi et al., Kōza: Bunmei to kankyō. Note that one of the general editors of this series was
Yasuda Yoshinari, whose environmental determinism and glorification of pre- agricultural societies find
frequent expression throughout.
65 Yumoto, ed., Shirīzu Nihon rettō no sanman gosen nen.
66 Hirakawa Minami et al., Kankyō no Nihonshi.
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