Climate Change Litigation in Japan (NIHU Studies in the Humanities, Volume: 01)

This book provides the details of Japanese climate litigation, positioning them both within the global trends of climate litigation and on the trajectory of Japanese past pollution lawsuits. It identifies the barriers that hinders the number of climate cases in Japan, a country known with a significant low litigation use. It then discusses the future prospects for climate change litigation in Japan by comparing with tobacco litigation in the United States. This original work makes a significant contribution to the international academic community, by describing Japan's climate cases, previously little known internationally.

NIHU Studies in the Humanities is an Open Access, peer-reviewed series which publishes leading research conducted at the inter-university research institutes under the umbrella of the National Institutes for the Humanities (NIHU) in Japan. The six institutes that make up NIHU operate as international centers of excellence in their respective fields: National Museum of Japanese History, National Institute of Japanese Literature, National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics, International Research Center for Japanese Studies, Research Institute for Humanity and Nature, and the National Museum of Ethnology. This series includes monographs by individual researchers and collective volumes that stem from collaborative academic projects. It seeks to achieve a broader and deeper understanding of human culture, with contributions from various fields such as history, archaeology, literature, linguistics, anthropology, and environmental studies.