Science for the Empire: Scientific Nationalism in Modern Japan

1938 the government created the Asia Development Agency (kōain)

First, it meant the independence of technology from law-bureaucrats in Japan.

This book is as much a history of the discourse of science as it is a history of nationalism and modernity in interwar and wartime Japan.

zaibatsu (shinkō koncherun) represented by Ayukawa Gisuke’s Nissan Zaibatsu,

In other words, how did science promoters and the wartime state “overcome” science, the question that troubled the

Rather, a critical discourse analysis, in the words of Norman Fairclough, aims “to map three separate forms of analysis onto one another: analysis of (spoken or written) language texts, analysis of discourse practice (processes of text production, distribution and

Hirota cabinet (1936–37)

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

kokumin, which is commonly translated as “the nation.”