Coastal history has been a reference point in maritime, harbor, and naval history, coastal urban history and interdisciplinary marine studies,4but it is only in the last twenty years that climate change has stimulatedenvironmental humanities5practitioners to focus on water, sustainable management of its resources, and multidisciplinary studies.6 In the pro…
Riose looked after his host’s departing figure, and his studied urbanity grew a bit uncertain at the edges. His education had been purely military; his experience likewise. He had, as the cliché has it, faced death many times; but always death of a very familiar and tangible nature. Consequently, there is no inconsistency in the fact that the idolized lion of the Twentieth Fleet felt chilled…
This book situates the 2020 Tokyo Olympics within the social, economic, and political challenges facing contemporary Japan. Using the 2020 Tokyo Olympics as a lens into the city and the country as a whole, the stellar line up of contributors offers hidden.