1990年代日本の「技術者倫理」普及過程に関する新聞記事数統計  [in Japanese] Statistics of Newspaper Articles about the Popularization of “Engineering Ethics” in Japan in the 1990s  [in Japanese]

Engineering ethics was introduced in Japan in the 1990s. The important institutional factors were the establishments of the APEC Engineer agreement and JABEE. In addition, a series of serious accidents and crimes related to science and technology that occurred in the same period in Japan has often been mentioned as a societal factor. Therefore, I have investigated the relevance of the various historical events and the popularization process of engineering ethics by retrieving and counting the number of newspaper articles that include the keywords. As part of the results, an overview of some differences in the timing and intensity of the social concerns raised about the ethics of scientists and engineers and various correlated factors has been provided.