Front Cover -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction: Parklands and Japan -- Urban Green Spaces -- Nations' Parks -- A New Public, New Public Spaces -- Chapter 1 From Private Lands to Public Spaces: Early City Parks -- Enjoying City Places in the Edo Period -- The Grand Council Parks -- Imperial Ueno -- Images of the Imperial Capital -- A Broader Discourse on the Quality of Urban Life -- Whose Hibiya? -- Incremental Parkland Growth -- Chapter 2 National Parks for Wealth, Health, and Empire -- Imagining National Spaces -- Petitions for National Parks -- Forests and Monuments -- Creating Desires for National Parks -- Picking the Parks -- National Parks in Imperial Spaces -- Chapter 5 Visions of a Green Tokyo -- The Kanto Disaster and City Parks -- Private Gifts to the Public -- The Home Ministry and City Parks in the 1930s -- A Green Bell for the Capital -- In the Nation's Service -- Parks and Society from War to Peace -- Rebuilding -- Chapter 4 Parks and Prosperity, 1950s-1980s -- New Parks for a Democratic Nation -- The City Parks Law of 1956 and Planning the Capital Region -- Parks and National Development -- Limited Environmental Protections -- Urban Green Spaces in the Affluent 1970s and 1980s -- Chapter 5 Parks and New Eco-Regimes -- Natural Parks and Wildlife Protection -- National Parks and International Recognition -- A New Forest Culture -- Eco-Regimes: Volunteers and Rural Restoration -- Ecology and Commerce -- Law from Above, Plans from Below -- Urban Parks and Their Residents -- Eco-Regimes: Community Partners -- Afterword: Parks, the Public, and the Environment in Japan -- Notes -- Sources Cited -- Index -- About the Author -- Back Cover.