This title is the first volume of a comprehensive, four-volume survey which documents the miraculous growth of Japanese science and technology from post-war devastation to its attaining a leading global status. A team of more than fifty Japanese experts labored for ten years in assembling the unique materials into a monumental work of careful scholarship. The study won the prestigious Mainichi Publications Award in 1997.
Preface to the English EditionPrefaceIntroductionPart I: GHQ and Demilitarization Policy1 The Scientific Intelligence Survey: The Compton Survey2 Investigations of the Effects of the Atomic Bomb3 Destruction of Cyclotrons4 Demilitarization and the Peaceful Remobilization of Manpower5 Military Research and its Conversion: Naval Radar Development6 The Ishii Unit7 Military Science and Technology in PeacetimePart II: Academic Research and its System Under the Occupation8 The Role of Advisory Missions9 The Reorganization of Research Structures10 Science Engineering Education in Japanese Universities after World War II11 The Science Council of Japan and the Scientific and Technical Administration Committee12 The International Exchange of Scientific Information13 Sending Scientists Overseas14 The Scientific Community Post-Defeat15 Research Funding in Occupied Japan16 Reform of Medical EducationPart III: The Reorganization of Industrial and Social Systems17 The Reorganization of the Electric Power Industry18 GHQ and Changes in the Postwar Telecommunications Structure19 GHQ and the Patent System of Japan20 GHQ’ s Public Health Policy: The Quarantine Program and the Influence of DDT21 The Population Problem and the Birth Control Program During the Occupation22 The Development of Japanese Style Quality Control23 Industrial SafetyPart IV: Scientists and Engineers in the Postwar Democracy24 Reporting on the Atomic Bomb and the Press Code25 The Association of Democratic Scientists (Minka)26 Democratization Movements in the Scientific World and the ‘ Red Purge’ 27 The Mushrooming of Popular Science Magazines28 Marxism and Postwar Science in JapanConsolidated Bibliography Appendix IAppendix II
