Engineering War And Peace In Modern Japan 1868 1964
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Engineering War And Peace In Modern Japan 1868 1964
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Author : Takashi Nishiyama
language : en
Publisher: JHU Press
Release Date : 2014-04-15
Engineering War And Peace In Modern Japan 1868 1964 written by Takashi Nishiyama and has been published by JHU Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-04-15 with Technology & Engineering categories.
The role of engineering communities in taking Japan from a defeated war machine into a peacetime technology leader. Naval, aeronautic, and mechanical engineers played a powerful part in the military buildup of Japan in the early and mid-twentieth century. They belonged to a militaristic regime and embraced the importance of their role in it. Takashi Nishiyama examines the impact of war and peace on technological transformation during the twentieth century. He is the first to study the paradoxical and transformative power of Japan’s defeat in World War II through the lens of engineering. Nishiyama asks: How did authorities select and prepare young men to be engineers? How did Japan develop curricula adequate to the task (and from whom did the country borrow)? Under what conditions? What did the engineers think of the planes they built to support Kamikaze suicide missions? But his study ultimately concerns the remarkable transition these trained engineers made after total defeat in 1945. How could the engineers of war machines so quickly turn to peaceful construction projects such as designing the equipment necessary to manufacture consumer products? Most important, they developed new high-speed rail services, including the Shinkansen Bullet Train. What does this change tell us not only about Japan at war and then in peacetime but also about the malleability of engineering cultures? Nishiyama aims to counterbalance prevalent Eurocentric/Americentric views in the history of technology. Engineering War and Peace in Modern Japan, 1868–1964 sets the historical experience of one country’s technological transformation in a larger international framework by studying sources in six different languages: Chinese, English, French, German, Japanese, and Spanish. The result is a fascinating read for those interested in technology, East Asia, and international studies. Nishiyama's work offers lessons to policymakers interested in how a country can recover successfully after defeat.
Japan In War And Peace
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Author : John W. Dower
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1996
Japan In War And Peace written by John W. Dower and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1996 with Japan categories.
This collection of essays highlights the resemblances between wartime, postwar and contemporary Japan. The essays are particularly concerned with the nature of Japanese capitalism and the country's nationalistic doctrines of racial superiority.
Japan 1868 1945
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Author : Takao Matsumura
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2014-09-25
Japan 1868 1945 written by Takao Matsumura and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-09-25 with History categories.
The history of Imperial Japan, from the Meiji Restoration through to defeat and occupation at the end of the Second World War, is central to any understanding of the way in which modern Japan has developed and will continue to develop in the future. This wide-ranging accessible and up-to-date interpretation of Japanese history between 1868 and 1945 provides both a narrative and analysis. Describing the major changes that took place in Japanese political, economic and social life during this period, it challenges widely-held views about the uniqueness of Japanese history and the homogeneity of Japanese society.
Technology Gatekeepers For War And Peace
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Author : M. Matsumoto
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2006-03-15
Technology Gatekeepers For War And Peace written by M. Matsumoto and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-03-15 with History categories.
The technological revolution in shipbuilding in the early twentieth century had a great impact on the military, industrial, commercial worlds. Matsumoto focuses on the relationship between this revolution and the structure and function of 'technology gatekeepers' during the transfer of marine science and technology from Britain to Japan.
Inventing Japan 1853 1964
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Author : Ian Buruma
language : en
Publisher: Random House Digital, Inc.
Release Date : 2003
Inventing Japan 1853 1964 written by Ian Buruma and has been published by Random House Digital, Inc. this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003 with History categories.
In a single short book as elegant as it is wise, Ian Buruma makes sense of the most fateful span of Japan’s history, the period that saw as dramatic a transformation as any country has ever known. In the course of little more than a hundred years from the day Commodore Matthew Perry arrived in his black ships, this insular, preindustrial realm mutated into an expansive military dictatorship that essentially supplanted the British, French, Dutch, and American empires in Asia before plunging to utter ruin, eventually emerging under American tutelage as a pseudo-Western-style democracy and economic dynamo. What explains the seismic changes that thrust this small island nation so violently onto the world stage? In part, Ian Buruma argues, the story is one of a newly united nation that felt it must play catch-up to the established Western powers, just as Germany and Italy did, a process that involved, in addition to outward colonial expansion, internal cultural consolidation and the manufacturing of a shared heritage. But Japan has always been both particularly open to the importation of good ideas and particularly prickly about keeping their influence quarantined, a bipolar disorder that would have dramatic consequences and that continues to this day. If one book is to be read in order to understand why the Japanese seem so impossibly strange to many Americans, Inventing Japan is surely it.
War And Militarism In Modern Japan
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Author : Guy Podoler
language : en
Publisher: Brill
Release Date : 2009
War And Militarism In Modern Japan written by Guy Podoler and has been published by Brill this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009 with Japan categories.
A considerable amount of writing has been published on Japan at war in WWII. Scholars have been revisiting the Russo-Japanese War of 1904-5. This volume examines Japan's twentieth-century approach to war and militarism in a wider perspective, bringing hitherto unexamined new themes and subject-matter under scrutiny up to the present day.
Modern Japan
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Author : Arthur E. Tiedemann
language : en
Publisher: Princeton, N.J., Van Nostrand
Release Date : 1955
Modern Japan written by Arthur E. Tiedemann and has been published by Princeton, N.J., Van Nostrand this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1955 with Japan categories.
Modern Japan
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Author : William Montgomery McGovern
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1929
Modern Japan written by William Montgomery McGovern and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1929 with Japan categories.
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Author : 坂野徹
language : ja
Publisher:
Release Date : 2018-09-20
written by 坂野徹 and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-09-20 with Reference categories.
科学技術が「帝国の道具
The Making Of Modern Japan
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Author : Marius B. Jansen
language : en
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Release Date : 2009-07-01
The Making Of Modern Japan written by Marius B. Jansen and has been published by Harvard University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-07-01 with History categories.
Magisterial in vision, sweeping in scope, this monumental work presents a seamless account of Japanese society during the modern era, from 1600 to the present. A distillation of more than fifty years’ engagement with Japan and its history, it is the crowning work of our leading interpreter of the modern Japanese experience. Since 1600 Japan has undergone three periods of wrenching social and institutional change, following the imposition of hegemonic order on feudal society by the Tokugawa shogun; the opening of Japan’s ports by Commodore Perry; and defeat in World War II. The Making of Modern Japan charts these changes: the social engineering begun with the founding of the shogunate in 1600, the emergence of village and castle towns with consumer populations, and the diffusion of samurai values in the culture. Marius Jansen covers the making of the modern state, the adaptation of Western models, growing international trade, the broadening opportunity in Japanese society with industrialization, and the postwar occupation reforms imposed by General MacArthur. Throughout, the book gives voice to the individuals and views that have shaped the actions and beliefs of the Japanese, with writers, artists, and thinkers, as well as political leaders given their due. The story this book tells, though marked by profound changes, is also one of remarkable consistency, in which continuities outweigh upheavals in the development of society, and successive waves of outside influence have only served to strengthen a sense of what is unique and native to Japanese experience. The Making of Modern Japan takes us to the core of this experience as it illuminates one of the contemporary world’s most compelling transformations.