Samurai Science
Author: Marcia Amidon Lusted
Publisher: Capstone
Published: 2016-08
Total Pages: 33
ISBN-13: 1491481242
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →"Describes the science behind the armor, weapons, training, and tactics used by Samurai warriors in combat"--
Lanterna Rally
eBook PDF Download Digital Library
Growing a Japanese Science City
Author: James W. Dearing
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2002-09-11
Total Pages: 236
ISBN-13: 1134892748
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Tsukuba Science City is the world's most ambitious attempt to `turbocharge' scientific collaboration. James W. Dearing looks at the political and economic context within which the plans for Tsukuba were laid, how those plans changed during the process of implementation, and at the functioning of Tsukuba today. Tsukuba is vitally important to Japan's basic scientific research . Its history, its failures and successes need to be understood by governments and businesses planning for scientific research and economic growth.
Apocalypse in Contemporary Japanese Science Fiction
Author: M. Tanaka
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2014-01-29
Total Pages: 189
ISBN-13: 1137373555
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Starting with the history of apocalyptic tradition in the West and focusing on modern Japanese apocalyptic science fiction in manga, anime, and novels, Motoko Tanaka shows how science fiction reflected and coped with the devastation in Japanese national identity after 1945.
Science and the Building of a New Japan
Author: M. Low
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2005-08-05
Total Pages: 259
ISBN-13: 1403976929
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This book highlights the importance of individuals in the shaping of postwar Japan by providing an historical account of how physicists constituted an influential elite. An history of science perspective provides insight into their role, helping us to understand the hybrid identity of Japanese scientists, and how they reinvented not only themselves, but also Japan. The book is special in that it uses the history of science to deal with issues relating to Japanese identity, and how it was transformed in the decades after Japan's defeat. It explores the lives and work of seven physicists, two of whom were Nobel prize winners. It makes use of little-known Occupation period documents, personal papers of physicists, and Japanese language source material.
Science, Technology, and Medicine in the Modern Japanese Empire
Author: David G. Wittner
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2016-03-22
Total Pages: 313
ISBN-13: 1317444361
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →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.
Science, Technology and Society in Postwar Japan
Author: Shigeru Nakayama
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2013-10-28
Total Pages: 246
ISBN-13: 1136154825
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →First published in 1991. The study of Japanese science and technology (especially technology) 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.
The Orientation of Science and Technology
Author: Shigeru Nakayama
Publisher: Global Oriental
Published: 2009-02-26
Total Pages: 412
ISBN-13: 9004213074
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Shigeru Nakayama has been at the forefront of redirecting conventional East Asian science and technology, arguing that ‘orientation of science’ refers not only to the direction of science but also implies a turning to Eastern science. Recently, he has been arguing for implementation of a ‘Service Science’, linked to rights and needs of mankind.
Science and Technology in Modern China, 1880s-1940s
Author:
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2014-02-20
Total Pages: 360
ISBN-13: 9004268782
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The first of its kind, this collection of critical essays opens up new venues in the comparative study of science and culture by focusing on the formative decades of modern China in the late nineteenth and first half of the twentieth century. It provides a wide-ranging examination of the cultural and intellectual history of science and technology in modern China.From anti-imperialism to the technology of Chinese writing, the commodification of novelties to the rise of the modern professional scientist, new lexica and appropriations of the past, the contributors map out a transregional and global circuitry of modern knowledge and practical know-how, nationalism and the amalgamation of new social practices. Contributors include: Iwo Amelung, Fa-ti Fan, Shen Guowei, Danian Hu, Joachim Kurtz, Eugenia Lean, Thomas S. Mullaney, Hugh Shapiro, Grace Shen, and Jing Tsu.
A Cultural History of Modern Science in China
Author: Benjamin A. Elman
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 2009-07-01
Total Pages: 325
ISBN-13: 0674036484
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Historians of science and Sinologists have long needed a unified narrative to describe the Chinese development of modern science, medicine, and technology since 1600. They welcomed the appearance in 2005 of Benjamin Elman's masterwork, On Their Own Terms. Now Elman has retold the story of the Jesuit impact on late imperial China, circa 1600-1800, and the Protestant era in early modern China from the 1840s to 1900 in a concise and accessible form ideal for the classroom. This coherent account of the emergence of modern science in China places that emergence in historical context for both general students of modern science and specialists of China.
Science, Technology, and Society
Author: Sal P. Restivo
Publisher: Oxford University Press on Demand
Published: 2005
Total Pages: 728
ISBN-13: 0195141938
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →'Science, Technology, and Society' offers approximately 150 articles written by major scholars and experts from academic and scientific institutions worldwide. The theme is the functions and effects of science and technology in society and culture.
