Japan's Imperial Forest Goryorin, 1889-1945

This is the first study of its kind to trace the history of what was to become one of Japan's major resources and a model of conservation and forestry management. Central to the planning of the Meiji reformers was securing the long-term financial stability of the Imperial household that would not leave it exposed to the whims of future political and economic change. The solution was the goryorin, or imperial forests. Over time, however, the acquired land generated controversy within the framework of law and other imperatives, and was finally abandoned by the Occupation authorities because of the political ideology that was its raison d'etre in the first place. In Part II, the author explores the great early Meiji debate between government and people (kan/min) concerning the reorganization of woodland in Japan, which in essence was a contest for control of the realm. By 1889 the Tokyo government, despite having 80 percent of the people (min), then living in villages, against them, completed their programme of forest consolidation, leading the way to their rationale for the goryorin allocation.

ISBN 1905246307   Pages 184 ISBN13 9781905246304 (What's this?)   Volumes 1 Publisher Brill   Weight (grammes) 500 Imprint Global Oriental Ltd   Published in Folkestone Format Hardback   Height (mm) 220 Publication date 07 Jun 2007   Width (mm) 140 Library of Congress DS   Spine width (mm) 20 DEWEY 333.75110952   Academic level Undergraduate DEWEY edition DC22

		Preface : Britain and Japan : a comparison
Ch. 1		Historical background		7
Ch. 2		Establishing Goryorin		15
Ch. 3		Reducing Goryorin		30
Ch. 4		The case of Yamanashi Goryorin		44
Ch. 5		Managing Goryorin : plans and performance		57
Ch. 6		Managing Goryorin : aspects of practice		69
Ch. 7		Goryorin : an assessment		88
Ch. 8		The Kan/Min division of woodland in early Meiji Japan, 1871-76		101

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