Science, technology, and society in postwar Japan
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Science, technology, and society in postwar Japan
(Japanese studies)
Kegan Paul International, 1991
Available at 41 libraries
  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
Note
Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
First Published in 1991. The study of Japanese science and technology (especially tech nology) is a fashionable subject at the present time, and numerous English language works appear month by month claiming to explain the 'miracle' of the recent rise of Japanese technology. Most of these works are, however, seem to be superficial treatments of Japan's recent technological performance, lacking in historical insight. This book is an attempt to introduce a critical examination of the mechanisms by which Japan has promoted science and technology by looking at its post-war historical development.
Table of Contents
Preface, 1 Introduction, Four-sector approach, Conceptual Apparatus Employed, Indistinguishability of Science and Technology Science Classified and Defined According to Assessors Academic Sector and Academic Science, Public Sector and Public Science, Private Sector and Private Science, Sponsored Science, Technocratic Science, Citizen Sector and Service Science, Two Other Criteria for Classifying Science i. Publicized Science and Privatized Science, ii. Competition Mechanism, Periodization and Structure, 2 Democracy Versus Technocracy in Science, Problematique. i Postwar Democracy and Science (late 40s to early 50s), A. Military vs. Scientists during the Occupation, B. 'Happy Marriage' of Democracy and Science: The Case of Minka, ii Changing Relationship Between and Definition of 'Science and Democracy' 3. Changing Models of Japanese Universities 4 Expansion and Limit of Academic Science 5 High Economic Growth and Private Science 6 Weakness of National Projects- Public Science 7 Grassroots Revolt- Possibility of Service Science 8 Microelectronics Revolution 9 Competition and Cooperation Japan- USA Phase 10 Looking to the Future
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