Manchuria to be vacant land

Censorship does not only limit discourse; it

The word creation (sōsaku) quickly became the key word in the technocratic discourse of Manchuria (and of the empire later).

1932 issue of Kōjin, along with the lead article declaring “Make promptly a technological advancement in developing Manchuria!”

How nationalism mobilized science and how, in turn, the promotion of science mobilized nationalism, however, are new questions.

Fairclough, Critical Discourse Analysis, 2. Also see Fairclough, Media Discourse and Analysing Discourse; and Jaworski and Coupland, The Discourse Reader.

They were particularly frustrated with businessmen and bureaucrats who came to Manchuria without any scientific background;

1938 the government created the Asia Development Agency (kōain)

The answers this book provides reveal highly complicated and contested discourses of what science was, what Japan was, and what Japanese modernity was.