We utilize the unique historical case of Edo Japan to explore the effect of institutionalized political relations between central and local governments. We argue that fudai daimyos, or political insiders, who had access to important positions in the central administration expended their local resources...
The promise of zooarchaeology in understanding animal usage in premodern Japan was set out three decades ago in a short paper by Uchiyama (1992). In his discussion of the San’ei-chō 三栄町site in early modern Edo 江戸 (Tokyo), Uchiyama noted the ability of archaeology to study animal ...
www.nature.com/scientificreports OPEN SO2 and HCHO over the major cities of Kazakhstan from 2005 to 2016: influence of political, economic and industrial changes Zhuldyz Darynova1, Mehdi Amouei Torkmahalleh1,2*, Talgat Abdrakhmanov1, Serik Sabyrzhan1, Sultan Sa...
Japanese view of nature, animals and plants' (Nishimoto 2008b: 4). Japan's ear- lier encounter with Christianity in the late sixteenth to early seventeenth centuries had led to various social and economic changes, but did not result in major changes to 'Japanese values' (Nishimoto (2008c: ...