The Japanese and Western Science

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Masao Watanabe

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Anniversary Collection

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The Japanese first encountered Western scientific technology around 1543, when the Portuguese drifted ashore and left them firearms. For the next few centuries Japan's policy of national isolation severely limited contact with the West. In the middle of the 19th century, when Commodore Perry introduced the Japanese to a few of the West's technological achievements, they realized how vulnerable their technological ignorance made them and felt great pressure to master Western science as quickly as possible. This study examines the intersection of Western science and Japanese culture since Japan's opening to the West. Using case studies, the author describes how the Japanese have effectively accepted Western science and technology. Yet the study argues that Japan, in its eagerness to catch up with the West, sought for the fruits of science rather than its cultural and religious roots or the processes that allowed it to flourish. The author contends that this resulted in a lack of integration of the new science into Japanese culture, with a resulting strain on people's lives, education and research, and led to problems in international affairs and environmental pollution.

Author Biography:

Masao Watanabe is Professor of History of Science at International Christian University. Tokyo, and Professor Emeritus at the University of Tokyo. He is the author of Science in the History of Modern Culture; Science Across the Pacific: American Science Teachers in Mejji, Japan; and Scientists and Christianity, from Galileo to the Present. Otto Theodor Benfey is Editor for the National Foundation for the History of Chemistry and Adjunct Professor, Department of History and Sociology of Science at the University of Pennsylvania. He is the translator of Ernst Cassirer's Determinism and Indeterminism in Modern Physics and of Fred Aftalion's History of the International Chemical lndustry, published by the University of Pennsylvania Press.

Release date Australia

January 29th, 1991

Author

Masao Watanabe

Audiences

Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Professional & Vocational
Undergraduate

Contributors

Contributions by Edwin O. Reischauer
Translated by Otto Theodor Benfey

Illustrations

45 illus.

Pages

128

Series

Anniversary Collection

Dimensions

152x229x18

ISBN-13

9780812282528

Product ID

14295455

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