This is the third volume in a set looking at the growth of Japanese science and technology in the post-World War II period. Focused on the 1960s, the volume's 32 chapters begin with a section that doc
The challenge of the Asian economic crisis in the late 1990s has placed pressure on the Japanese economy to change, causing the nation to turn to science and technology to safeguard its future. In thi
Contributors identified only by name investigate the extent to which the Japanese government, business, citizenry, and academia internalized the policies imposed by the foreign authorities during the
Marked by Minamata Disease, the oil crisis of 1973, trade friction with the US, and a general understanding that the economic and financial environment was worsening rapidly, the 1970s would appear to
In 1983, Nakayama begin work on the "Japanese Science and Technology" project, in which a team of over 50 experts was assembled to document the miraculous growth of Japanese science and technology aft
