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Nineteenth-century factories burned coal—fossilized sunshine, as one scholar has called it—and cities, as public health officials in Tokyo concerned with cholera bacilli and other opportunistic organisms knew all too well, can be fecund ecologies. 7 The Ueno Zoo was an especially public form of hybrid ecology. It was a manufactured environment, to be sure, but an environment nonetheless, and many of the cultural dynamics that concern us here played out in physical interactions between people and animals within that built environment.
More optimistically, increased vigilance through improved conservation legislation, especially from the 1970s to today, has also had an effect. 26 Human beings have altered the ecologies of the Japanese islands for as long as people have lived there, but those processes have been amplified dramatically by the same social and technological dynamics that drove Japan’s rapid material development. Ecological modernity was a handmaiden of industrialization. These environmental developments pose historical problems, and scholars have begun to recognize that the scale of the Anthropocene threatens to overwhelm traditional frameworks and methodologies of history writing.
At times animals figure as historical actors—as distinct from agents—in the stories recounted here, especially in later chapters, as dictated by available archival materials. Agency in its standard usage implies conscious, deliberative action. G. ”36 The study of animal cognition has developed considerably since Collingwood penned that sentence in 1946—we now know that crows, chimpanzees, and other species work with forethought and “mental maps”—but I do not follow the recent trend in some scholarship to ascribe thoughtful agency to animals.