Science for the Empire - 9780804759618

Science for the EmpireScientific Nationalism in Modern Japan\nAuthor(s): Hiromi Mizuno\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Stanford University Press, United States\nImprint: Stanford University Press\nISBN-13: 9780804759618, 978-0804759618\nSynopsis\nThis fascinating study examines the discourse of science in Japan from the 1920s to the 1940s in relation to nationalism and imperialism. How did Japan, with Shinto creation mythology at the absolute core of its national identity, come to promote the advancement of science and technology? Using what logic did wartime Japanese embrace both the rationality that denied and the nationalism that promoted this mythology? \n\n Focusing on three groups of science promoterstechnocrats, Marxists, and popular science proponentsthis work demonstrates how each group made sense of apparent contradictions by articulating its politics through different definitions of science and visions of a scientific Japan. The contested, complex political endeavor of talki.