Coal Mining Communities and Gentrification in Japan
This book offers a multidisciplinary analysis of approach in the field of energy studies of Japan, examining post-closure coal mining towns in Japan and their gentrification. It considers the impact of closures on the agricultural industry, the re-absorpt
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Coal Mining Communities and Gentrification in Japan
Tai Wei Lim • Naoko Shimazaki Yoshihisa Godo • Yiru Lim
Coal Mining Communities and Gentrification in Japan
Tai Wei Lim Singapore University of Social Sciences Singapore, Singapore
Naoko Shimazaki Waseda University Tokyo, Japan
Yoshihisa Godo Meiji Gakuin University Tokyo, Japan
Yiru Lim Singapore University of Social Sciences Singapore, Singapore
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Foreword
If the Anthropocene is the new world of humanity’s making, then there has hardly been a more important, and more controversial, actor in making it than coal. The mass production of coal provided the power for the European, and hence global, Industrial Revolutions during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. In Britain, coal helped industry from a total of 170,000 horsepower in 1800 to 2.2 million in 1870 and 10.5 million by 1907.1 In the developing world today, coal is still a major source of power and electricity. However, while coal may have been a symbol of progress and modernity in the nineteenth century, it is now more likely to reflect the dark sides of the Industrial Revolution—dirty, dangerous, and exploitative. The grey skies and poisoned waters of Linfen city in Shanxi province, in China’s northern coal mining region, today symbolize for many people what is means to produce and consume coal. In 2010, Linfen was rated by the World Bank as the world’s most polluted city.2 Climate change has now made the proble
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