Social History of Science and Technology Vol.1

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Page count: 700
Publication Date: 01/12/2001
Trim Size (Inches): 6.75 x 9.25
ISBN: 9781876843106

Social History of Science and Technology Vol.1

Volume 1: The Occupation Period 1945-1952

by NAKAYAMA Shigeru

Book Series: Japanese Society Series

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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...

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Awards

Mainichi Publications Award (1997)

About Editors and Authors

NAKAYAMA Shigeru was a leading Japanese scholar specializing in the history of science. He was Professor Emeritus at Kanagawa University and Vice-Chairman of the International Academy of the History of Science. In 1945, he joined the Hiroshima High School Science Class (now Hiroshima University), and was exposed to the atomic bomb at his residence. In 1948, he moved to Tokyo to join the Department of Astronomy, Faculty of Science, University of Tokyo, and upon graduating in 1951 was employed by the publisher Heibonsha. In 1955, he joined the Graduate School of Harvard University as a Fulbright Scholar and was awarded a PhD in 1960. After returning to Japan, he served in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences of the University of Tokyo as Lecturer, and later went on to become Assistant Professor. He retired from the University of Tokyo in 1989 and became Professor at Kanagawa University. His career produced a wide range of research achievements, including in the history of science and technology in China and Japan, the history of universities and the social history of science. He passed away in 2014.

Preface to the English Edition
Preface
Introduction

Part I: GHQ and Demilitarization Policy

1 The Scientific Intelligence Survey: The Compton Survey
2 Investigations of the Effects of the Atomic Bomb
3 Destruction of Cyclotrons
4 Demilitarization and the Peaceful Remobilization of Manpower
5 Military Research and its Conversion: Naval Radar Development
6 The Ishii Unit
7 Military Science and Technology in Peacetime

Part II: Academic Research and its System Under the Occupation

8 The Role of Advisory Missions
9 The Reorganization of Research Structures
10 Science Engineering Education in Japanese Universities after World War II
11 The Science Council of Japan and the Scientific and Technical Administration Committee
12 The International Exchange of Scientific Information
13 Sending Scientists Overseas
14 The Scientific Community Post-Defeat
15 Research Funding in Occupied Japan
16 Reform of Medical Education

Part III: The Reorganization of Industrial and Social Systems

17 The Reorganization of the Electric Power Industry
18 GHQ and Changes in the Postwar Telecommunications Structure
19 GHQ and the Patent System of Japan
20 GHQ’s Public Health Policy: The Quarantine Program and the Influence of DDT
21 The Population Problem and the Birth Control Program During the Occupation
22 The Development of Japanese Style Quality Control
23 Industrial Safety

Part IV: Scientists and Engineers in the Postwar Democracy

24 Reporting on the Atomic Bomb and the Press Code
25 The Association of Democratic Scientists (Minka)
26 Democratization Movements in the Scientific World and the ‘Red Purge’
27 The Mushrooming of Popular Science Magazines
28 Marxism and Postwar Science in Japan

Consolidated Bibliography
Appendix I
Appendix II