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Yasuka Toda is Japan’s Brilliant Female Researcher of 2022, an annual accolade bestowed by the Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST). Toda, a molecular biologist at Tokyo’s Meiji University, was awarded the ¥1-million (US$7,560) prize in recognition of her work tracing the evolution of taste receptors in birds and primates.
Toda says her research combines two passions: food science and animals (she initially trained and qualified as a vet). In particular, she is fascinated by the concept of taste. “It’s something that is very familiar to us, something we can sense directly.”
Many visitors to Japan limit their sightseeing activities to the country's heavily urbanized areas between Tokyo, Kyoto and Hiroshima. As a result, many return home with a hardened misconception that Japan is one large, densely populated megacity. In fact, however, over two thirds of Japan are covered by forested mountains and hills, compared to less than ten percent residential and industrial land.
The Japanese archipelago stretches nearly 3000 kilometers from north to south, allowing visitors to experience a wide range of natural sights from the drift ice in the seas off Hokkaido to the mangrove jungles in Okinawa. In between, there are majestic volcanoes, breathtaking coastlines and vast forests inhabited by monkeys, bears, deer, cranes and other wildlife. Places of particular natural beauty are protected as national parks and world heritage sites.
housands of years of natural disasters in one of the most seismically volatile places on earth have embedded in the Japanese psyche a fear, reverence, and love for nature. This, along with Japan’s diverse climates, abundant rainfall and historic isolation have set the stage for literary, artistic, cultural, religious, food and farming/foraging practices that are unique worldwide.
Japanese literature is replete with references to nature, and reaches back over a thousand years to The Tale of Genji, written in the Heian Period by Murasaki Shikibu, a novelist, poet, and lady-in-waiting of the Imperial Court. Seasonal metaphors are used throughout. One particularly moving example evokes the pain of lost love: “The world know it not; but you, Autumn, I confess it: your wind at night-fall stabs deep into my heart.”
The Tale also references the Japanese gift for gardening in great and small places. The ancient interior courtyard garden continues today bringing nature literally into the home. Japanese contemporary architects such as Kengo Kuma, Toyo Ito, Shigeru Ban, Tadao Ando and Sou Fujimoto are well known for integrating nature into their practice.
Japan is often surrounded by the myth of featuring a unique “love for nature”, and its traditional culture and lifestyle as having been “in harmony with nature” before it was corrupted by modernization and Westernization. In this paper, I employ three examples to delineate images of nature in different times of Japanese history and point out the discrepancy between discourse on nature and physical engagement with nature. I argue that the environmental destruction that peaked in the Meiji period (1868–1912) is not primarily derived from a new, dualistic Euro-American understanding of nature. Rather, I demonstrate that environmental harm was already inherent in premodern Japan and was reconcilable with the respective concepts of nature. Therefore, industrialization and the adoption of Western technology solely released the potential for large-scale environmental impact.
Keywords: Japan; nature; culture; history of ideas; environment; pollution
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