A Social History of Science and Technology in Contemporary Japan Volume 1: The Occupation Period 1945-1952,9781876843106

A Social History of Science and Technology in Contemporary Japan Volume 1: The Occupation Period 1945-1952

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ISBN13: 9781876843106
ISBN10: 1876843101
Format: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 2001-09-01
Publisher(s): Trans Pacific Press
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Summary

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 monumental work of careful scholarship. The study won the prestigious Mainichi Publications Award in 1997.

Table of Contents

Preface to the English Edition ix
Shigeru Nakayama
Preface 1(22)
Shigeru Nakayama
Introduction 23(36)
Shigeru Nakayama
Part I: GHQ and Demilitarization Policy
The Scientific Intelligence Survey: The Compton Survey
59(14)
Yukuo Sasamoto
Investigations of the Effects of the Atomic Bomb
73(35)
Yukuo Sasamoto
Destruction of Cyclotrons
108(11)
Shigeru Nakayama
Demilitarization and the Peaceful Remobilization of Manpower
119(14)
Yukuo Sasamoto
Military Research and its Conversion: Naval Radar Development
133(13)
Miwao Matsumoto
The Ishii Unit
146(13)
Keiichi Tsuneishi
Military Science and Technology in Peacetime
159(20)
Shigeru Nakayama
Part II: Academic Research and its System Under the Occupation
The Role of Advisory Missions
179(14)
Shigeru Nakayama
The Reorganization of Research Structures
193(13)
Shigeru Nakayama
Science Engineering Education in Japanese Universities after World War II
206(18)
Takashi Hata
The Science Council of Japan and the Scientific and Technical Administration Committee
224(13)
Shigeru Nakayama
The International Exchange of Scientific Information
237(12)
Shigeru Nakayama
Sending Scientists Overseas
249(12)
Shigeru Nakayama
The Scientific Community Post-Defeat
261(15)
Shigeru Nakayama
Research Funding in Occupied Japan
276(18)
Takashi Hata
Reform of Medical Education
294(25)
Hiroyuki Fujii
Part III: The Reorganization of Industrial and Social Systems
The Reorganization of the Electric Power Industry
319(34)
Takuji Okamoto
GHQ and Changes in the Postwar Telecommunications Structure
353(15)
Kiyoshi Yamauchi
GHQ and the Patent System of Japan
368(14)
Tetsuo Tomita
GHQ's Public Health Policy: The Quarantine Program and the Influence of DDT
382(13)
Hazime Mizoguchi
The Population Problem and the Birth Control Program During the Occupation
395(16)
Hazime Mizoguchi
The Development of Japanese Style Quality Control
411(11)
Shigeru Nakayama
Industrial Safety
422(15)
Seikan Ishigai
Part IV: Scientists and Engineers in the Postwar Democracy
Reporting on the Atomic Bomb and the Press Code
437(33)
Yukuo Sasamoto
The Association of Democratic Scientists (Minka)
470(12)
Shigeru Nakayama
Democratization Movements in the Scientific World and the `Red Purge,'
482(34)
Toshifumi Yatsumimi
The Mushrooming of Popular Science Magazines
516(17)
Yukio Wakamatsu
Marxism and Postwar Science in Japan
533(27)
Kunio Goto
Consolidated Bibliography 560(43)
Appendix I: Organization Chart: General Headquarters Supreme Commander for the Allied Powers (GHQ, SCAP), Tokyo, Japan, 5 June 1948 603(1)
Appendix II: Staff Directory of GHQ/SCAP/Economic & Scientific Section/Science & Technical Division 604

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