Science, Technology, and Medicine in the Modern Japanese Empire

David G. Wittner is a professor of East Asian history and Director of the Center for Historical Research at Utica College, USA. Philip C. Brown is a professor at the Ohio State University, USA, specializing in early modern and modern Japanese history.

Introduction Part I: Science, Technology and Industry in the Creation of a New Japan 1 "Coke, Christ, and the Japanese Empire" 2 Academia-Industry Relations: Interpreting the Role of Nagai Nagayoshi in the Development of New Businesses in the Meiji Period and Beyond 3 An Emperor’s Chemist at War and in Peacetime: Sakurai Jōji during the Russo-Japanese and First World Wars Part II: State, Experts and Imperial Medical Policy 4 Cholera, Buddhism, and Public Health: The Story of an Ephemeral Chimera in Meiji Japan 5 Freedom of the Press during the Siberian Intervention: The Taisho Democracy and the Influenza Pandemic of 1918 6 The Politics of Manic Depression in the Japanese Empire 7 A Colony or A Sanitarium? : A Comparative History of Segregation Politics of Hansen’s disease in Modern Japan 8 "The Are Not Humans": Responses to Hōjō Tamio and Patient Writing Part III: Medicine, Race, and Empire 9 Dr. Baelz’s Mongolian Spot: The Contribution of German Medicine to the Racial Discourse in Meiji Japan 10 When Precision Obscures: Disease Categories Related to Cholera during the Sino-Japanese War (1894-1895) 11 Kampō in Wartime Sino-Japanese Relations: The Association of East Asian Medicine and the Search for a Tripartite Medical Partnership Part IV: Scientific Weapons and the Transformation of Pacific War Aims 12 The Question of Research in Pre-WWII Japanese Physics 13 Architects of ABC Weapons for the Japanese Empire: microbiologists and theoretical physicists 14 The Science of Population and Birth Control in Postwar Japan Afterword "Is There Anything Unique About Modern Japanese Science?"