Engineering War and Peace in Modern Japan, 1868-1964

The role of engineering communities in taking Japan from a defeated war machine into a peacetime technology leader.

Naval, aeronautic, and mechanical engineers played a powerful part in the military buildup of Japan in the early and mid-twentieth century. They belonged to a militaristic regime and embraced the importance of their role in it. Takashi Nishiyama examines the impact of war and peace on technological transformation during the twentieth century. He is the first to study the parado...