What is it about?
While Japan was experiencing a so-called “energy revolution” from coal to oil in the industrial sector, the use of diverse energy sources continued in the household sector.
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Why is it important?
A linear understanding of an energy shift from coal to oil/gas would blur the historical significance of the diversification of energy sources that occurred concurrently.
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I would like to show that the energy history in Japan has an important lesson about the transformation of household energy use.
Tomoki Shimanishi
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This page is a summary of: Diversified Energy Use in Twentieth-Century Japanese Households, The Asian review of World Histories, December 2020, Brill,
DOI: 10.1163/22879811-12340087.
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