A Social History of Science and Technology in Contemporary Japan: Volume 3: High Economic Growth Period 1960-1969

by Shigeru Nakayama (Editor), Kunio Goto (Editor), Hitoshi Yoshioka (Editor)

Overview

This is the third volume of a comprehensive, four-volume survey that documents the miraculous growth of Japanese science and technology from post-war devastation to its rise as a global leader. A team of more than fifty Japanese experts labored for ten years to assemble unique materials into this monumental work of careful scholarship. First published in Japanese in 1995, this study won the prestigious Mainichi Publications Award in 1995. This third volume, now in English, deals with the period of high economic growth from 1960 to 1969.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781876843298
Publisher:	Trans Pacific Press
Publication date:	01/01/2006
Series:	Japanese Society Series
Pages:	612
Product dimensions:	6.25(w) x 9.00(h) x 1.90(d)

Table of Contents

	Preface to the English Edition	ix
	Preface	1
	Introduction	23
Part I	GHQ and Demilitarization Policy
1	The Scientific Intelligence Survey: The Compton Survey	59
2	Investigations of the Effects of the Atomic Bomb	73
3	Destruction of Cyclotrons	108
4	Demilitarization and the Peaceful Remobilization of Manpower	119
5	Military Research and its Conversion: Naval Radar Development	133
6	The Ishii Unit	146
7	Military Science and Technology in Peacetime	159
Part II	Academic Research and its System Under the Occupation
8	The Role of Advisory Missions	179
9	The Reorganization of Research Structures	193
10	Science Engineering Education in Japanese Universities after World War II	206
11	The Science Council of Japan and the Scientific and Technical Administration Committee	224
12	The International Exchange of Scientific Information	237
13	Sending Scientists Overseas	249
14	The Scientific Community Post-Defeat	261
15	Research Funding in Occupied Japan	276
16	Reform of Medical Education	294
Part III	The Reorganization of Industrial and Social Systems
17	The Reorganization of the Electric Power Industry	319
18	GHQ and Changes in the Postwar Telecommunications Structure	353
19	GHQ and the Patent System of Japan	368
20	GHQ's Public Health Policy: The Quarantine Program and the Influence of DDT	382
21	The Population Problem and the Birth Control Program During the Occupation	395
22	The Development of Japanese Style Quality Control	411
23	Industrial Safety	422
Part IV	Scientists and Engineers in the Postwar Democracy
24	Reporting on the Atomic Bomb and the Press Code	437
25	The Association of Democratic Scientists (Minka)	470
26	Democratization Movements in the Scientific World and the 'Red Purge,'	482
27	The Mushrooming of Popular Science Magazines	516
28	Marxism and Postwar Science in Japan	533
	Consolidated Bibliography	560
Appendix I	Organization Chart: General Headquarters Supreme Commander for the Allied Powers (GHQ, SCAP), Tokyo, Japan, 5 June 1948	603
Appendix II	Staff Directory of GHQ/SCAP/Economic & Scientific Section/Science & Technical Division	604