いわゆる「若者の理工系離れ」と私の歴史研究  [in Japanese] Historical Research into the Current Tendency for Japanese Youth to Dislike Majoring in Science & Technology at the Time of Admission to College  [in Japanese]

In the later half of 1960's, the ratio of junior high school students who entered technical high schools went down. My educational sociology study started from social scientific research about the origins of this trend. As research resources, I have gathered many documents about Japanese engineers' dissatisfactions with treatment and position in government and company offices. Of all these resources, the most important documents were the diaries of a government civil engineer, Takenosuke Miyamoto, which he had written from secondary school days to just before the time of his death. As other resources, I had found there were many bulletins of engineer movement societies, such as "Koseikai" (the Engineer's Society for the Industrial Politics) and "Nihon Kojin Kurabu" (Japanese Society of Technicians). In the Japanese-Chinese war days, 1941, government river improvements engineer Miyamoto who had considerable political influence, having been promoted to deputy chief of the Cabinet Planning Board by many government engineers lobbying for change he had completed the outline report for the new institutional order of the promotion of science & technology and obtained Cabinet agreement to put that order into effect. In 1989, after completion of my historical research, I published a book, "Takenosuke Miyamoto, his life and the rise of administration for the promotion of science & technology in Japan". This war my doctoral dissertation. In this book, based on the above historical research, I intended to show clearly my understanding about the process of Japanese modernization. I showed how its historical process was from the system of Civil Service Appointment Ordinance to the system of institutionalization of technology. In this historical-social process, Japanese elite engineers campaigned, saying "Science is to be political, politics is to be scientific," and they expected to become new administrative leaders replacing the high-ranking legal officials in the government bureaucracy.