By Hiromi Mizuno
Focusing on 3 teams of technological know-how promoters—technocrats, Marxists, and renowned technological know-how proponents—this paintings demonstrates how every one staff made feel of obvious contradictions via articulating its politics via diversified definitions of technology and visions of a systematic Japan. The contested, advanced political undertaking of conversing approximately and selling technology produced what the writer calls "scientific nationalism," a strong present of nationalism that has been neglected via students of Japan, nationalism, and modernity.
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