for in late 1937 the younger members took over leadership from the older members. “We will finally be able to regain energy,”

Exploring for new resources had become such a desperate concern that it even established a new field of science after the Manchurian Incident, “resource science” (shigen kagaku) or “resource chemistry” (shigen kagaku).

To create a larger budget, the government declared that a “quasi-wartime economic system”

These new zaibatsu became the important apparatus of Japan’s colonialism in Manchuria.

Konoe cabinet (the first Konoe cabinet, June 1937–January 1939)

In other words, by asserting “science-technology,” the technocrats successfully changed the field of the politics of the “scientific.” For such politics, Manchuria and China were indispensable.

Ricoh

In other words, how things are said, expressed, and explained, and how and where discourses are produced and consumed, constitutes a crucial analysis of that society.

science unique to Japan. What exactly was meant by “Japanese” technology?