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Science and the Building of a New Japan

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This book highlights the importance of individuals in the shaping of postwar Japan by providing an historical account of how physicists constituted an influential elite. An history of science perspective provides insight into their role, helping us to understand the hybrid identity of Japanese scientists, and how they reinvented not only themselves, but also Japan. The book is special in that it uses the history of science to deal with issues relating to Japanese identity, and how it was transformed in the decades after Japan's defeat. It explores the lives and work of seven physicists, two of whom were Nobel prize winners. It makes use of little-known Occupation period documents, personal papers of physicists, and Japanese language source material.

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ISBN: 9781403968319
Publication date: 22nd August 2005
Author: Morris Low
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan an imprint of Palgrave Macmillan US
Format: Hardback
Pagination: 259 pages
Series: Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University
Genres: History of science
Cultural studies
Asian history
Music