Science and the Building of a New Japan

MORRIS LOW is Senior Lecturer in Asian Studies and Director of the Asian Studies Centre at the University of Queensland, Australia. He is co-author of Science, Technology and Society in Contemporary Japan (CUP, 1999) and co-editor of Asian Masculinities: The Meaning and Practice of Manhood in China and Japan (Routledge Curzon, 2003) and editor of a three-volume anthology Science, Technology and R&D in Japan (Routledge, 2001).

• The Shaping of the Japanese Physicist Mobilising Science in World War II: Yoshio Nishina Remobilising Science and Rebuilding Japan: Yoshio Nishina The Social Spokesperson: Shoichi Sakata and Mituo Taketani The Expert: Hideki Yukawa and Sin-Itiro Tomonaga The Technocrat: Ryokichi Sagane The International Scientist: Satio Hayakawa Conclusion

"In this new and compelling social and political history, Morris Low explores the self-fashioning of Japanese physicists, their engagement with Western science and their role in the modernization and post-war reconstruction of Japan. With authority and insight, Low guides us through the multi-layered institutional landscape of the physical sciences in twentieth century Japan in war and peace. His incisive analysis is a major contribution to the history of modern Japan, as well as to the history of twentieth century science." - Dr. Jeff Hughes, Senior Lecturer in History of Science and Technology, University of Manchester, UK "A worthy and important contribution to the field of science history." - Walter Grunden - ISIS