HIGHLIGHTING THE HISTORY OF JAPANESE RADIO ASTRONOMY. 1: AN INTRODUCTION
Journal: Journal of Astronomical History and Heritage
Year: 2012

Japan was one of a number of nations that made important contributions in the fledgling field of radio astronomy in the years immediately following WWII. In this paper we discuss the invention of the Yagi-Uda antenna and the detection of solar radio emission in 1938, before reviewing radio astronomical developments that occurred between 1948 and 1961 in Osaka, Nagoya, Tokyo and Hiraiso. In order to place these early Japanese experiments in a national and international context we briefly review t