Problem of Early Modern Japan in the History of Science in East Asia
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概要
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In adopting Western science and technology, Japan showed striking differences from other East Asian countries. In particular, Japan achieved a great success in the latter half of the nineteenth century in the adoption of Western science and in the industrialization. This phenomenon is usually viewed as part of the East Asian history in which an East Asian country was especially successful in adopting science and technology from the West after the Western countries had developed them. Thus, this usual view takes the Japanese case strictly as an "inter-cultural" transmission between West and East Asia and distinguishes it from the other cases of "intra-cultural" transmissions in the West. But can the distinction be so clearcut? Was the Japanese development not a part of the development of science and technology that was going on at the time in a few leading countries of the world? This is the question I will be raising in various forms in this paper.
- 日本科学史学会の論文
- 2008-07-31