Asbestos Disaster

1. A Political Economy of Asbestos Disasters
Hiroyuki Mori

2. An Exploration of Measures Against Industrial Asbestos Accidents  *
Kenichi Miyamoto

3. Why Did the Asbestos Disaster Spread?
Takehiko Murayama, Yuji Natori

4. Asbestos Pollution and Its Health Effects: Asbestos-Related Diseases in Japan
Kenji Morinaga, Yasushi Shinohara

5. Mesothelioma Due to Neighborhood Asbestos Exposure: A Large-Scale, Ongoing Disaster Among Residents Living Near a Former Kubota Plant in Amagasaki, Japan
Norio Kurumatani, Shinji Kumagai

6. Asbestos Disasters and Public Policy: From the Prewar Era Through the Postwar Economic Boom *
Hiroyuki Mori

7. Persistent Thorns: Responsibility for Asbestos Disasters
Masafumi Kato

8. Asbestos Industry Transplants from Japan to South Korea
Shinjiro Minami

9. Inaction on Asbestos Disasters and Delayed Countermeasures*
Norio Obata

10. Process Tracing of Asbestos Politics in Japan: Focus on Fiscal Years 2005 and 2006
Michiya Mori

11. Future Challenges for Asbestos Policy in the Construction Industry
Kazuhiko Ishihara

12. Local Government Measures Against Asbestos: Tokyo Metropolitan and Osaka Prefectural Governments as Case Studies
Kazuhisa Hiraoka

13. Asbestos Litigation in Japan: Recent Trends and Related Issues
Katsumi Matsumoto

14. The French Indemnification Fund for Asbestos Victims: Features and Formative Historical Factors: Preliminary Observations for a Comparative Analysis of Asbestos Relief Frameworks
Gakuto Takamura

Keywords: Environment, Environmental Health, Medicine/Public Health, general, Epidemiology, Political Science, Social Sciences, general