講義題目: 
The History of Science and Technology in Japan

授業の目標・概要:  
This course will lecture and discuss historical issues from the history of science, technology, and medicine, as well as social history of time and clock in pre-modern, and contemporary Japan.

授業のキーワード:  
[日本語用]
日本科学史、日本技術史、時計、時間規律、近代日本史

[外国語用]
history of science in Japan,history of technology in Japan,clock and punctuality, history of modern Japan

授業計画:  
It will cover the following topics:the introduction of Western technology in late Edo and Meiji periods,the origin of punctuality in premodern and modern Japan,the competition between traditional and modern mdicine,Japanese physicists and the atomic bomb,posrwer economic and technological development and change of time consciousness,the environmental problems in contemporary Japan.

授業の方法:  
Students will be assigned to read papers,write short essays,and make presentations. All lectures will be given in English,and students are encouraged to discuss and make presentation in English.

成績評価方法:  
attendance and homework

教科書: 
Tessa Morris-Suzuki,Technological Transformation of Japan

参考書: 
Takehiko Hashimoto, Historical Essays on Japanese Technology

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