On this page, we introduce the translation of "Japan in the Edo Period - An Ecologically-Conscious Society",("O-edo ecology jijo," published in 2000, Kodansha Publishing Company) by Eisuke Ishi...

* This article is under copyright protection.Sustainability in Japan's Edo Period--300 Years Ago! Throughout the Edo Period the Japanese were living only with solar energy. This was the case wit...

* This article is under copyright protection.Sustainability in Japan's Edo Period--300 Years Ago! Western civilization invented many conveniences, so that the Japanese admired the civilization's meri...

* This article is under copyright protection.Sustainability in Japan's Edo Period--300 Years Ago! I have recently come to think that people in the olden days did not pebble roads in order to keep off the ...

* This article is under copyright protection.Sustainability in Japan's Edo Perio--300 Years Ago! Once a fossil fuel is burned, it can never return to its original state. In today's modern society, it is as if we are living comfortably on ...

* This article is under copyright protection.Sustainability in Japan's Edo Period--300 Years Ago! Japanese rice farming was inseparable from the surrounding nature. In other words, it was a combin...

* This article is under copyright protection.Sustainability in Japan's Edo Period--300 Years Ago! One characteristic of the times when people only depended on solar energy is a low capacity to manufacture commodities. As a result, the...

* This article is under copyright protection.Sustainability in Japan's Edo Perio Dependent heavily on solar energy, it was no easy task for the people of the Edo Period to make wellprepared rice, as it required certain skills to adjust irr...

* This article is under copyright protection.Sustainability in Japan's Edo Period--300 Years Ago! Japan in the Edo era had technologies to make it possible to mass-produce nishiki-e, p...

* This article is under copyright protection.Sustainability in Japan's Edo Perio0 Years Ago! You hear the word "recycle" everywhere you go these days, mostly in connection with the collection and re-use of unwanted second-hand goods. Give...

* This article is under copyright protection.Sustainability in Japan's Edo Period--300 Years Ago! Why have we stopped using yukatas in such a sensible way? Well, for one thing, our present-day lifesty...

* This article is under copyright protection.Sustainability in Japan's Edo Period--300 Years Ago! One key way of curbing the generation of waste is to manufacture sturdy, durable products that last...

* This article is under copyright protection.Sustainability in Japan's Edo Period--300 Years Ago! Unlike some of the manufactured products you find these days which seem to have been made without a thought for repair when th...

* This article is under copyright protection.Sustainability in Japan's Edo Period--300 Years Ago! Since not recycling just creates more rubbish, but recycling can require tremendo...

* This article is under copyright protection.Sustainability in Japan's Edo Period--300 Years Ago! Edo Japan was full of diversity, far beyond any stereotypes we may have of the er...

* This article is under copyright protection.Sustainability in Japan's Edo Period--300 Years Ago! The fish market of Edo was in Nihonbashi*, before the Great Kanto Earthquake, which forced it move t...

* This article is under copyright protection.Sustainability in Japan's Edo Period--300 Years Ago! Edo period Japan was a country that seldom used vehicles. Although there were a f...

* This article is under copyright protection.Sustainability in Japan's Edo Period--300 Years Ago! In Japan, there is an old saying "Shobo-ni kidokunashi," which means "No miracle...

* This article is under copyright protection.Sustainability in Japan's Edo Period--300 Years Ago! What can we do about our current ecologic situation? Unfortunately, the only fact of which ...