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Coles A Social History of Science and Technology in Contemporary Japan: Volume 3: High Economic Growth Period 1960-1969 at Bayshore Shopping Centre in Ottawa, ON
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Volume 3 of the four-volume A Social History of Science and Technology in Contemporary Japan examines the period of high economic growth, when Japan emerged as one of the world's leading scientific and technological powers. It explores how government, universities, research institutions, and industry collaborated to build a modern research and development infrastructure that supported rapid economic expansion and technological innovation.
The volume covers the growth of corporate and government R&D, the creation of Tsukuba Science City, the expansion of higher education and international scientific cooperation, and the rise of new industries including nuclear power, space development, petrochemicals, and computers. It also examines the transformation of Japanese society through the development of the Shinkansen, expressways, telecommunications, urbanization, environmental protection, television, and science journalism. Written by more than fifty leading Japanese historians of science and technology, this English edition makes a landmark work of Japanese scholarship available to an international audience for the first time.
Volume 3 of the four-volume A Social History of Science and Technology in Contemporary Japan examines the period of high economic growth, when Japan emerged as one of the world's leading scientific and technological powers. It explores how government, universities, research institutions, and industry collaborated to build a modern research and development infrastructure that supported rapid economic expansion and technological innovation.
The volume covers the growth of corporate and government R&D, the creation of Tsukuba Science City, the expansion of higher education and international scientific cooperation, and the rise of new industries including nuclear power, space development, petrochemicals, and computers. It also examines the transformation of Japanese society through the development of the Shinkansen, expressways, telecommunications, urbanization, environmental protection, television, and science journalism. Written by more than fifty leading Japanese historians of science and technology, this English edition makes a landmark work of Japanese scholarship available to an international audience for the first time.
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