List of illustrations |
List of tables |
Acknowledgements |
Introduction / 1: |
The Japanese Challenge |
Explaining the Challenge: Culture, Institutions and History |
Imitation and Innovation |
Technology and the Japanese Periphery |
Social Networks and Innovation |
The Tokugawa Heritage, 1603-1867 / Part I: |
Society and Technology in Tokugawa Japan / 2: |
Foreign Influences in a 'Closed Country' |
Heredity and Hierarchy |
Soroban and Sword |
Science and the Samurai |
'Develop Products, Promote Enterprise' |
Peace and the Printed Word |
Nature of Tokugawa Technology |
Silk and Cotton |
Gold, Silver and Iron |
Sake-brewing |
Carpentry and Instrument-making |
Opening the Doors / 3: |
Of Cannons, Iron Furnaces and the Outer Domains |
Japan and the Black Ships |
Hired Foreigners and Japanese Abroad |
Technology in Industrialising Japan, 1868-1945 / Part II: |
Technology and the Meiji State, 1868-1912 / 4: |
'Under Reconstruction' |
The State-centred Approach |
The Revisionist Approach |
The Social Network Approach |
Systems-building and Science-based Industry, 1912-1937 / 5: |
Corporate Research and the Social Network of Innovation |
Science and Business: Company Research and the Acquisition of Technology |
The State and Corporate Research |
Subcontracting and Small Firms |
Government Planning and the Rise of Technology Policy |
A War of Science and Technology, 1937-1945 / 6: |
A New Order for Science and Technology |
The War and Corporate Research |
Subcontracting and the 'Just-in-time' System |
Scientists and Social Responsibility |
The Making of a Technological Superpower, since 1945 / Part III: |
Technology and the 'Economic Miracle', 1945-1973 / 7: |
Democracy, Technology and the New Japan |
Back to the Future: Technological and Industrial Recovery |
Imported Technology and Indigenous Innovation |
Rationalisation and the Productivity Movement |
From Rationalisation to Automation: Postwar Technology Policies |
The Social Network of Innovation in Postwar Japan |
Technology, Society and the Environment |
High-tech Japan / 8: |
The Collapse of High Growth and the Birth of the 'Information Society' |
Next Generation Technologies |
The Changing Shape of Corporate Research |
Small-scale Manufacturing and the Technopolis Vision |
National Technology Projects: Nuclear Power and Space |
Japan as an Exporter of Technology |
Notes |
Chronology |
Bibliography |
Index |
List of illustrations |
List of tables |
Acknowledgements |
Introduction / 1: |
The Japanese Challenge |
Explaining the Challenge: Culture, Institutions and History |