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Sekigawa, Hideo. 1953. Hiroshima. Feature Film. Hiroshima begins with a scene in a middle school classroom in 1953 where students’ misunderstandings of radiation and leukemia have led to discrimination against victims. By foregrounding issues of discrimination and the lack of
Teach 3.11 is pleased to announce the preliminary program of the workshop “Historical and Contemporary Studies of Disasters,” to be held at the Society for the History of Technology (SHOT) annual meeting in Copenhagen on Sunday, 7 October 2012. This
This is an innovative and accessible narrative of multi-faceted relationships between a nation, pain, and industrial pollution. Walker offers fresh analyses of well-known cases in Japanese history, such as the Meiji period’s Ashio copper mine and the more recent Minamata and Itai-itai (“it hurts, it hurts”) diseases in the postwar period.
Jacob Hamblin, “‘A Dispassionate and Objective Effort: Negotiating the First Study on the Biological Effects of Atomic Radiation,” Journal of the History of Biology 40, no. 1 (March 2007): 147-177. In this article Jacob Hamblin examines the history of the
The multi-language educational project Teach 3.11 launched shortly after March 11th, 2011 in an effort to introduce resources to help “teach the disaster” through the lens of history of science, technology, environment, and medicine in global East Asia. To commemorate
Editors’ Note: This is a translation of a Teach 3.11 annotation that originally appeared here. We invite volunteers to translate and/or contribute content to Teach 3.11 in any language, including Korean, Japanese, and Chinese. Thank you. Tsukahara, Tōgo. 2011. “Disaster
311バーチャル会議: Looking Back to Look Forward (11-12 March 2012) Teach 311は2012年3月11日～12日日本時間朝8時から、STS 福島フォーラムのホームページ上で東北大震災の一周忌に開かれるバーチャル会議を後援します。このイベントは、現地調査を手がける著名な研究者から大学院生によるエッセイに対してのコメントや対話を48時間に渡り受け付けるもので、昨年あった地震、津波、核による惨事の合同災害に関連する主な課題や未解決の問題について話し合う場になる予定です。 どなたでも参加できますので、皆様と語り合えますのを楽しみにしております。詳細はこちらです。 Teach 3.11 is pleased to co-sponsor a “virtual conference” that will take place 11-12 March 2012 from 8:00 a.m., Japan Standard Time (6:00 p.m., March 10, EST) at the science
Kirby, Peter Wynn. Troubled Natures: Waste, Environment, Japan. Honolulu: University of Hawaiʻi Press, 2011. Troubled Natures by Peter Wynn Kirby illustrates culturally specific understandings of waste in Japan gleaned through anthropological analysis. Blurring the distinction between the “human” and the
Yoshioka, Hitoshi. 2006. “Future Plans for Nuclear Physics Research,” “The Rise of Nuclear Fusion Research,” “The Development and Utilization of Nuclear Reactors.” In A Social History of Science and Technology in Contemporary Japan: Volume 4: High Economic Growth Period, 1960-1969,
Editor’s note: This week, we are pleased to feature contributions from Sofia University graduate students enrolled in Tak Watanabe’s 2011 spring semester classes in Tokyo, Japan. Hamblin, Jacob Darwin. 2008. Poison in the Well: Radioactive Waste In The Oceans At The Dawn of The
Editor’s note: This week, we are pleased to feature contributions from Sofia University graduate students enrolled in Tak Watanabe’s 2011 spring semester classes in Tokyo, Japan. We begin with a film translation and subtitling project of a Japanese documentary that
Jasanoff, Sheila, and Sang-Hyun Kim. 2009. “Containing the Atom: Sociotechnical Imaginaries and Nuclear Power in the United States and South Korea.” Minerva 47: 119-146. http://www.springerlink.com/content/y2738665782223l6/ By introducing the concept of “sociotechnical imaginaries,” this article examines and compares the historical differences
Ōmiya, Kōichi [大宮浩一]. 2011. Mujō Sobyō. 無常素描 [The Sketch of Mujō]. Tokyo: TOFOO Films. HD documentary film, 75 min., http://mujosobyo.jp/ Ōmiya Koichi’s The Sketch of Mujō [Mujō Sobyō] is the first documentary film to take a ground-level view of life
Edgington, David W. 2010. Reconstructing Kobe: The Geography of Crisis and Opportunity. University of British Columbia Press. [wptabs mode=”horizontal”] [wptabtitle] English[/wptabtitle] [wptabcontent] … we may not know fully if Kobe has provided Tokyo, or any other Japanese city, with the
Low, Morris, Shigeru Nakayama, and Hitoshi Yoshioka. 1999. “Technology versus Commercial Feasibility: Nuclear Power and Electric Utilities.” In Science, Technology and Society in Contemporary Japan, 66-81. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. This article is a chapter of a book coauthored by
Tokyo Modern I: Koizumi Kishio’s “100 Views” of the Imperial Capital (1928-1940), available at: http://ocw.mit.edu/ans7870/21f/21f.027/tokyo_modern_01/index.html While people in Japan are still suffering from the shock of earthquakes and tsunami, soon there will be efforts to rebuild cities, villages, and the
Smits, Gregory. 2011. “Danger in the Lowground: Historical Context for the March 11, 2011 Tōhoku Earthquake and Tsunami.” The Asia-Pacific Journal 9 (20), May 16. http://www.japanfocus.org/-Gregory-Smits/3531 In the days and weeks following the disaster on March 11, 2011, the Japanese popular press revisited
Nelson, Craig. 2011. “‘The Energy of a Bright Tomorrow’: The Rise of Nuclear Power in Japan.” Origins 4 (9) (June). http://ehistory.osu.edu/osu/origins/article.cfm?articleid=57. Ohio State University’s online journal Origins (tagline: “Current Events in Historical Perspective”) has published a highly accessible article by
Greene, J. Megan. 2008. “Starts and Stops,” The Origins of the Developmental State in Taiwan, 14-46. Harvard University Press. For those interested in the origins of nuclear energy research by Japan’s East Asian neighbors, Greene’s history of science policy in
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Petryna, Adriana. 2011. “Chernobyl’s survivors: Paralyzed by fatalism or overlooked by science?” Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists 67 (2): 30 -37. DOI: 10.1177/0096340211400177. Available at http://bos.sagepub.com/content/67/2/30.abstract. This is an article by Adriana Petryna, an anthropologist who conducted field work in