The lost wolves of Japan

Foreword : a strange violent intimacy / by William Cronon

Science and the creation of the Japanese wolf

Culture and the creation of Japan's sacred wolves

The conflicts between wolf hunters and rabid man-killers in early modern Japan

Meiji modernization, scientific agriculture, and destroying the Hokkaido wolf

Wolf bounties and the ecology of progress

Wolf extinction theories and the birth of Japan's discipline of ecology

Appendix : wolves and bears killed and bounties paid by administrative region, 1877-1881.