Yuriko Furuhata traces climate engineering from the early twentieth century to the present, showing how a range of Japanese scientists, technicians, architects, and artists developed technologies to monitor, condition, and modify climate.

Acknowledgments  vii
Introduction  1
1. Outdoor Weather: Artificial Fog and Weather Control  25
2. Indoor Weather: Air-Conditioning and Future Forecasting  48
3. To the Greenhouse: Weatherproof Architecture as Climatic Media  80
4. Spaceship Earth: Plastics and the Ecological Dilemma of Metabolist Architecture  104
5. Cloud Control: Tear Gas, Cybernetics, and Networked Surveillance  133
Conclusion: Explicating the Backgrounds  166
Notes  177
Bibliography  215
Index  237