Document Type
Panel Presentation
Start Date
19-4-2019 9:15 AM
End Date
19-4-2019 10:30 AM
Keywords
enviromentalism, Japan, film, Hayao Miyazaki
Biography
Joseph Smith is from Coal Grove, Ohio. He is a senior in Marshall University’s College of Liberal Arts with a major in Japanese and a minor in English.
Major
Japanese
Advisor for this project
Dr. Zelideth Rivas
Abstract
Recently, Japan has led political negotiations toward creating stronger and more impactful environmental policies. Nevertheless, it still faces many environmental issues. Hayao Miyazaki’s 1997 animated film Princess Mononoke (もののけ姫Mononoke-hime) encapsulates the negative implications of destroying nature for the sake of economic gain. Here, the audience can derive many environmental issues. For example, acts such as deforestation can lead to an excessive demand for trade of timber, resulting in endangered species. This presentation will explore the impact of environmentalism in Princess Mononoke with greater detail, including the adverse effects people encounter through losing access to nature.
Japanese Environmentalism Reflected through Princess Mononoke
Recently, Japan has led political negotiations toward creating stronger and more impactful environmental policies. Nevertheless, it still faces many environmental issues. Hayao Miyazaki’s 1997 animated film Princess Mononoke (もののけ姫Mononoke-hime) encapsulates the negative implications of destroying nature for the sake of economic gain. Here, the audience can derive many environmental issues. For example, acts such as deforestation can lead to an excessive demand for trade of timber, resulting in endangered species. This presentation will explore the impact of environmentalism in Princess Mononoke with greater detail, including the adverse effects people encounter through losing access to nature.
