Modern Japanese discourse on nature: literature, ccience, and politics

• Main Author: Chen, Chen
• Other Authors: Ivy Yeh
• Format: Final Year Project
• Language: English
• Published: Nanyang Technological University 2024
• Subjects: Arts and Humanities
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/174411
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

This paper challenges the common perception that the Japanese have cultivated a harmonious coexistence with nature since ancient times. By tracing the history of Japanese discourse on nature, it reveals that the purported Japanese love for nature is merely a romanticized myth. Paradoxically, human e...