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Author : Tetsurō Nakaoka
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9789280801859
Total Pages : 22 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (18 download)
Download or read book Science and Technology in the History of Modern Japan written by Tetsurō Nakaoka and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 22 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : David G. Wittner
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317444361
Total Pages : 313 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (174 download)
Download or read book Science, Technology, and Medicine in the Modern Japanese Empire written by David G. Wittner and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-03-22 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Science, technology, and medicine all contributed to the emerging modern Japanese empire and conditioned key elements of post-war development. As the only emerging non-Western country that was a colonial power in its own right, Japan utilized these fields not only to define itself as racially different from other Asian countries and thus justify its imperialist activities, but also to position itself within the civilized and enlightened world with the advantages of modern science, technologies, and medicine. This book explores the ways in which scientists, engineers and physicians worked directly and indirectly to support the creation of a new Japanese empire, focussing on the eve of World War I and linking their efforts to later post-war developments. By claiming status as a modern, internationally-engaged country, the Japanese government was faced with having to control pathogens that might otherwise not have threatened the nation. Through the use of traditional and innovative techniques, this volume shows how the government was able to fulfil the state’s responsibility to protect society to varying degrees. Chapter 14 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF at http://www.taylorfrancis.com under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND) 4.0 license.
Author : M. Low
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1403981116
Total Pages : 251 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (39 download)
Download or read book Building a Modern Japan written by M. Low and published by Springer. This book was released on 2005-05-05 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the late Nineteenth-century, the Japanese embarked on a program of westernization in the hope of building a strong and modern nation. Science, technology and medicine played an important part, showing European nations that Japan was a world power worthy of respect. It has been acknowledged that state policy was important in the development of industries but how well-organized was the state and how close were government-business relations? The book seeks to answer these questions and others. The first part deals with the role of science and medicine in creating a healthy nation. The second part of the book is devoted to examining the role of technology, and business-state relations in building a modern nation.
Author : Minoru Tanaka
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 10 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (12 download)
Download or read book Characteristics of the history of science and technology of modern Japan written by Minoru Tanaka and published by . This book was released on 1966 with total page 10 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : David G. Wittner
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781138302532
Total Pages : 302 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (25 download)
Download or read book Science, Technology, and Medicine in the Modern Japanese Empire written by David G. Wittner and published by . This book was released on 2017-06-16 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Science, technology, and medicine all contributed to the emerging modern Japanese empire and conditioned key elements of post-war development. As the only emerging non-Western country that was a colonial power in its own right, Japan utilized these fields not only to define itself as racially different from other Asian countries and thus justify its imperialist activities, but also to position itself within the civilized and enlightened world with the advantages of modern science, technologies, and medicine. This book explores the ways in which scientists, engineers and physicians worked directly and indirectly to support the creation of a new Japanese empire, focussing on the eve of World War I and linking their efforts to later post-war developments. By claiming status as a modern, internationally-engaged country, the Japanese government was faced with having to control pathogens that might otherwise not have threatened the nation. Through the use of traditional and innovative techniques, this volume shows how the government was able to fulfil the state's responsibility to protect society to varying degrees. The contributors push the field of the history of science, technology and medicine in Japan in new directions, raising questions about the definitions of diseases, the false starts in advancing knowledge, and highlighting the very human nature of fields which, on the surface, seem to non-specialists to be highly rational. Challenging older interpretative tendencies, this book highlights the vigour of the field and the potential for future development. Therefore, it will be of huge interest to students and scholars of Japanese history, Asian history, the history of science and technology and the history of medicine.
Author : Hiromi Mizuno
Publisher : Stanford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0804769842
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (47 download)
Download or read book Science for the Empire written by Hiromi Mizuno and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2008-11-12 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This fascinating study examines the discourse of science in Japan from the 1920s to the 1940s in relation to nationalism and imperialism. How did Japan, with Shinto creation mythology at the absolute core of its national identity, come to promote the advancement of science and technology? Using what logic did wartime Japanese embrace both the rationality that denied and the nationalism that promoted this mythology? Focusing on three groups of science promoters—technocrats, Marxists, and popular science proponents—this work demonstrates how each group made sense of apparent contradictions by articulating its politics through different definitions of science and visions of a scientific Japan. The contested, complex political endeavor of talking about and promoting science produced what the author calls "scientific nationalism," a powerful current of nationalism that has been overlooked by scholars of Japan, nationalism, and modernity.
Author : Morris Low
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521654258
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (542 download)
Download or read book Science, Technology and Society in Contemporary Japan written by Morris Low and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1999-11-28 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the dynamic relationship between science, technology and Japanese society, examining how it has contributed to economic growth and national well-being. It presents a synthesis of recent debates by juxtaposing competing views about the role and direction of science, technology and medical care in Japan. Topics discussed include government policy, the private sector and community responses; computers and communication; the automobile industry, the aerospace industry and quality control; the environment; consumer electronics; medical care; and the role of gender. This is an ideal introductory text for students in the sociology of science and technology, the history and philosophy of science, and Japanese studies. Up-to-date research and case studies make this an invaluable resource for readers interested in the nature of science and technology in the twenty-first century.
Author : Elise K. Tipton
Publisher : Psychology Press
ISBN 13 : 9780415185387
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (853 download)
Download or read book Modern Japan written by Elise K. Tipton and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ranging from the Tokugwa period to the present day, this text provides a concise and fascinating introduction to the social, cultural and political history of modern Japan. Tipton covers political and economic developments and shows how they relate to social themes and developments. Her survey covers traditional political history as well as areas growing in interest: gender issues, labor conditions and ethnic minorities.
Author : Shigeru Nakayama
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 776 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)
Download or read book A Social History of Science and Technology in Contemporary Japan: Road to self-reliance, 1952-1959 written by Shigeru Nakayama and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 776 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This title is the second volume of a comprehensive, four-volume survey which documents the miraculous growth of Japanese science and technology from postwar devastation to its attaining a leading global status. The team of more than fifty Japanese experts labored for ten years in assembling the unique materials into a monumental work of careful scholarship. The study won the prestigious Mainichi Publications Award in 1997.
Author : Andrew E. Barshay
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520253817
Total Pages : 346 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (22 download)
Download or read book The Social Sciences in Modern Japan written by Andrew E. Barshay and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2007-11-19 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A stunning achievement as the first full account of social science in a non-Western society. Barshay tells an epic story of how a handful of Japanese intellectuals used social science to make sense of the new society into which they were moving. What they did helps us understand not only Japan, but the whole modern world."—Robert Bellah, Professor of Sociology, Emeritus, University of California, Berkeley, and author of Tokugawa Religion and Imagining Japan
Author : Walter E. Grunden
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Secret Weapons and World War II written by Walter E. Grunden and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While previous writers have focused primarily on strategic, military, and intelligence factors, Walter Grunden underscores the dramatic scientific and technological disparities that left Japan vunerable and ultimately led to its defeat in World War II.
Author : Shigeru Nakayama
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 335 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (27 download)
Download or read book Science and Society in Modern Japan written by Shigeru Nakayama and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 335 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Shigeru Nakayama
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781876843649
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (436 download)
Download or read book A Social History of Science and Technology in Contemporary Japan written by Shigeru Nakayama and published by . This book was released on 2023-02-10 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This title is the first volume of a comprehensive, four-volume survey which documents the miraculous growth of Japanese science and technology from post-war devastation to its attaining a leading global status. A team of more than fifty Japanese experts labored for ten years in assembling the unique materials into a monumental work of careful scholarship. The study won the prestigious Mainichi Publications Award in 1997.
Author : Shigeru Nakayama
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781876843502
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (435 download)
Download or read book A Social History of Science and Technology in Contemporary Japan written by Shigeru Nakayama and published by . This book was released on 2006-11 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Masao Watanabe
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 1512808091
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (128 download)
Download or read book The Japanese and Western Science written by Masao Watanabe and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2016-11-11 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Japanese first encountered Western scientific technology around 1543, when the Portuguese drifted ashore and left them firearms. For the next few centuries Japan's policy of national isolation severely limited contact with the West. In the middle of the nineteenth century, when Commodore Perry introduced the Japanese to a few of the West's technological achievements, they realized how vulnerable their technological ignorance made them and felt great pressure to master Western science as quickly as possible. In The Japanese and Western Science, Masao Watanabe succinctly examines the intersection of Western science and Japanese culture since Japan's opening to the West. Using case studies, including a Japanese scientist trained in the West and foreign teachers brought to Japan, he describes how the Japanese quickly and effectively accepted Western science and technology. Yet Japan, eager to catch up, sought for the fruits of science rather than its cultural and religious roots or the processes that allowed it to flourish. The author contends that this resulted in a lack of integration of the new science into Japanese culture with the resulting strains in people's lives, their education, in research, in international affairs, and in environmental pollution. The central three chapters focus on Darwin, how his views were introduced, what aspects were of most interest—survival of the fittest rather than the common origins of animals and humans—and how one Japanese biologist sought to blend social Darwinism and Buddhist ideas. In one of the summarizing chapters, Watanabe contrasts the Western and Japanese conceptions of nature, and points out that the latter has tended to make the Japanese rely on mother nature to cope with the effects of human actions, no matter what these might be. The book is the product of painstaking research and penetrating insight by a Japanese scholar who has firsthand knowledge of Western science and culture.
Author : Linda K. Menton
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
ISBN 13 : 9780824825317
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (253 download)
Download or read book The Rise of Modern Japan written by Linda K. Menton and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 2003-01-01 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Graphs, charts, photographs, maps, and timelines enhance a history of modern Japan.
Author : Tessa Morris-Suzuki
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521424929
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (249 download)
Download or read book The Technological Transformation of Japan written by Tessa Morris-Suzuki and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1994-11-25 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This landmark book is the first general English-language history of technology in modern Japan.
