Building a Modern Japan
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In the late Nineteenth-century, the Japanese embarked on a program of westernization in the hope of building a strong and modern nation. Science, technology and medicine played an important part, showing European nations that Japan was a world power worthy of respect. It has been acknowledged that state policy was important in the development of industries but how well-organized was the state and how close were government-business relations? The book seeks to answer these questions and others. The first part deals with the role of science and medicine in creating a healthy nation. The second…mehr

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In the late Nineteenth-century, the Japanese embarked on a program of westernization in the hope of building a strong and modern nation. Science, technology and medicine played an important part, showing European nations that Japan was a world power worthy of respect. It has been acknowledged that state policy was important in the development of industries but how well-organized was the state and how close were government-business relations? The book seeks to answer these questions and others. The first part deals with the role of science and medicine in creating a healthy nation. The second part of the book is devoted to examining the role of technology, and business-state relations in building a modern nation.
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MARTHA CHAIKLIN Curator of Asian History at the Milwaukee Public Museum, USA GREGORY CLANCEY is Assistant Professor of History at the National University of Singapore, Singapore W. MILES FLETCHER Professor of History at the University of North Carolina, USA SABINE FRÜHSTÜCK Associate Professor of Modern Japanese Cultural Studies at the University of California, USA CHRISTIAN OBERLÄNDER Professor in the Department for Japanese Studies at the University Halle-Wittenberg, Germany SUMIKO OTSUBO Assistant Professor in the Department of History, Metropolitan State University in Minnesota, USA ROBERT PERRINS Associate Professor in the Department of History and Classics, at Acadia University, Canada YUKI TERAZAWA Teaches at Hofstra University in New York, USA DAVID WITTNER Associate Professor in the Department of History at Utica College, New York, USA