Accessing Technical Education in Modern Japan

doi:10.1017/9781912961269

This collection of fourteen key papers deriving from CEEJA's second international conference exploring the Japanese history of technology, concentrates on the routes to acquiring and transmitting technical knowledge in Japan's modern era - from the very earliest endeavours in establishing opportunities for acquiring a technical education to the translation of foreign textbooks and manuals. Published in two volumes and thematically structured in three parts, this wide-ranging work both complements and expands on the subject-matter contained in the second volume entitled Technical Knowledge in Early Modern Japan (2020).

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Frontmatter
pp i-iv

Contents
pp v-vi

Acknowledgements
pp vii-viii

Editors’ Notes on Translation
pp ix-x

Introduction: Books, Craftsmen, and Engineers: The Emergence of a Formalized Technical Education in a Modern Science-based Education System
pp xi-xxxii

1 - The Translation of Technical Manuals from Western Languages in Nineteenth-century Japan: A Visual Tour
pp 1-18

2 - The Translation of Western Books on Natural Science and Technology in China and Japan: Early Conceptions of Electricity 19
pp 19-36

3 - Creating Intellectual Space for West-East and East-East Knowledge Transfer: Global Mining Literacy and the Evolution of Textbooks on Mining in Late Qing China, 1860–1911
pp 37-69

4 - François Léonce Verny and the Beginning of the ‘Modern’ Technical Education in Japan
pp 70-87

5 - The Role of the Ministry of Public Works in Designing Engineering Education in Meiji Japan: Reconsidering the Foundation of the Imperial College of Engineering(Kōbu-dai-gakkō)
pp 88-113

6 - From Student of Confucianism to Hands-on Engineer: The Case of Ōhara Junnosuke, Mining Engineer 114
pp 114-160

7 - The Fall of the Imperial College of Engineering: From the Imperial College of Engineering (Kōbu-dai-gakkō) to the Faculty of Engineering at Imperial University, 1886 161
pp 161-188

Miscellaneous Frontmatter
pp i-iv

Miscellaneous Frontmatter
pp v-viii

8 - Kikuchi Kyōzō and the Implementation of Cottonspinning Technology: The Career of a Graduate of the Imperial College of Engineering
pp 189-216

9 - The Training School for Railway Engineers: An Early Example of an Intra-firm Vocational School in Japan
pp 217-251

10 - The Training and Education of Female Silk-reeling Instructors in Meiji Japan
pp 252-278

11 - The Establishment and Curriculum of the Tōkyō Shokkō-gakkō (Tōkyō Vocational School) in Meiji Japan
pp 279-302

12 - The Development of Mining Schools in Japan
pp 303-346

13 - Science Education in Japanese Schools in the Late 1880s as Reflected in Students’ Notes
pp 347-389

14 - Education in Mechanical Engineering in Early Universities and the Role of Their Graduates in Japan’s Industrial Revolution: The University of Tōkyō, the Imperial College of Engineering and the Imperial University
pp 390-438

List of Contributors
pp 439-444

Index
pp 445-459

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