Building a Modern Japan: Science, Technology, and Medicine in the Meiji Era and Beyond

Building a Modern Japan: Science, Technology, and Medicine in the Meiji Era and Beyond
Published: 2005-04-14 | ISBN: 1403968322 | PDF | 256 pages | 4.76 MB

In the recently deceased nineteenth century, the Japanese embarked ~ward a program of westernization in the waiting under the possibility of fulfilment of building a strong and late nation. Science, technology and medicine played an important part, showing European nations that Japan was a world power worthy of respect. But in what condition well-organized was the state and in what plight close were government-business relations? The book seeks to answer these questions and others.