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  1. Shōzō Tanaka (田中 正造, Tanaka Shōzō, 15 December 1841 – 4 September 1913) was a Japanese politician and social activist, and is considered to be Japan's first conservationist. Tanaka was politically active in the Meiji Restoration and leader in the Freedom and Popular Rights Movement.

  2. Dec 22, 2006 · This article examines Tanaka Shōzō's fundamental river law ( konponteki kasenhō) and the environmental philosophies of doku (poison) and nagare (flow), which Tanaka developed after his famous appeal to the emperor in 1901 and in polemic with the Meiji state's re-engineering of the Watarase and Tone watersheds.

    • Robert Stolz
    • 2006
  3. Ox against the Storm: A Biography of Tanaka Shōzō, Japan's Conservationist Pioneer. By Kenneth Strong. Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, 1978. 250 pp. Illustrations, Notes, Bibliography. $15.00. - Volume 38 Issue 1

  4. Statesman and social activist. Born in Tochigi as the son of the Village Chief. In 1857, he became the Village Chief of Konaka-mura, the village where he was born, and participated in political reforms conducted by his lord, the Rokkaku Family.

  5. Jul 22, 2021 · Tanaka Shōzō 田中正造 (1841-1913): The Politics of Democracy and Equality in Modern Japan 2 (1841-1913田中正造) became powerful in Shozō inspiration and emerged as an early and prescient critic of Japan’s industrialisation.2 Tanaka Shōzō’s ideas and political activities were played out in

  6. Mar 14, 2019 · I will discuss the case of T anaka Shōzō 田中正造 (1841–1913), who is regarded as a social activist and the pioneer of democratic movement in Japan. I shall read Tanaka as an ethical person who develops an ethics to care about the nature as well as human beings. Download chapter PDF. Similar content being viewed by others. 1 Introduction.

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  8. Apr 1, 2015 · In 1901 Tanaka and the socialist Kōtoku Shūsui (1871–1911) made a quixotic appeal (jikiso) to the Meiji emperor to remove the poisoned earth and make the Watarase River pure again. When this petition failed, Stolz notes, Tanaka abandoned “Meiji liberalism to develop a radical environmental politics” (p. 79).