Science and society in modern Japan
Subtitle: selected historical sources
By: edited by Nakayama Shigeru, David L. Swain, Yagi Eri.
Contributors: Swain, David L., 1927- joint comp.; Yagi, Eri, 1931- joint comp.
Publisher: University of Tokyo Press
Published: 1973
Place of publication: Tokyo
Language: eng
Number of pages: 337
Subjects: Science -- Japan -- History.; Technology -- Japan -- History.; Science -- Social aspects -- Japan.; Technology -- Social aspects -- Japan.
Notes: Bibliography: p. 312-325.
Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Nakayama, S. History of science.; title: Ogura, K. Arithmetic in a class society.; title: Taketani, M. Methodological approaches in the development of the meson theory of Yukawa in Japan.; title: Hoshino, Y. On concepts of technology.; title: Shizume, V. Toward a truly free labor force.; title: Ōya, S. Reflections on the history of science in Japan.; title: Nakayama, S. A history of universities.; title: Yuasa, M. The shifting center of scientific activity in the West.; title: Yagi, E. Statistical approaches to the history of science.; title: Oka, K. Society for the study of materialism.; title: Itakura, K. and Yagi, E. The Japanese research system and the establishment of the Institute of Physical and Chemical Research.; title: Hirosige, T. Social conditions for prewar Japanese research in nuclear physics.; title: Kaneseki, Y. The Elementary Particle Theory Group.; title: Nakamura, T. Marxism and biology in Japan.; title: Nakayama, S. Grass-roots geology. Ui, J. A basic theory of kogai.