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| List of illustrations | |
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| List of tables | |
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| Acknowledgements | |
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| Introduction | |
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| The Japanese Challenge | |
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| Explaining the Challenge: Culture, Institutions and History | |
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| Imitation and Innovation | |
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| Technology and the Japanese Periphery | |
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| Social Networks and Innovation | |
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| The Tokugawa Heritage, 1603-1867 | |
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| Society and Technology in Tokugawa Japan | |
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| Foreign Influences in a 'Closed Country' | |
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| Heredity and Hierarchy | |
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| Soroban and Sword | |
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| Science and the Samurai | |
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| 'Develop Products, Promote Enterprise' | |
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| Peace and the Printed Word | |
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| Nature of Tokugawa Technology | |
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| Silk and Cotton | |
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| Gold, Silver and Iron | |
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| Sake-brewing | |
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| Carpentry and Instrument-making | |
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| Opening the Doors | |
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| Of Cannons, Iron Furnaces and the Outer Domains | |
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| Japan and the Black Ships | |
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| Hired Foreigners and Japanese Abroad | |
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| Technology in Industrialising Japan, 1868-1945 | |
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| Technology and the Meiji State, 1868-1912 | |
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| 'Under Reconstruction' | |
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| The State-centred Approach | |
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| The Revisionist Approach | |
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| The Social Network Approach | |
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| Systems-building and Science-based Industry, 1912-1937 | |
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| Corporate Research and the Social Network of Innovation | |
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| Science and Business: Company Research and the Acquisition of Technology | |
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| The State and Corporate Research | |
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| Subcontracting and Small Firms | |
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| Government Planning and the Rise of Technology Policy | |
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| A War of Science and Technology, 1937-1945 | |
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| A New Order for Science and Technology | |
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| The War and Corporate Research | |
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| Subcontracting and the 'Just-in-time' System | |
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| Scientists and Social Responsibility | |
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| The Making of a Technological Superpower, since 1945 | |
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| Technology and the 'Economic Miracle', 1945-1973 | |
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| Democracy, Technology and the New Japan | |
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| Back to the Future: Technological and Industrial Recovery | |
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| Imported Technology and Indigenous Innovation | |
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| Rationalisation and the Productivity Movement | |
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| From Rationalisation to Automation: Postwar Technology Policies | |
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| The Social Network of Innovation in Postwar Japan | |
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| Technology, Society and the Environment | |
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| High-tech Japan | |
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| The Collapse of High Growth and the Birth of the 'Information Society' | |
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| Next Generation Technologies | |
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| The Changing Shape of Corporate Research | |
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| Small-scale Manufacturing and the Technopolis Vision | |
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| National Technology Projects: Nuclear Power and Space | |
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| Japan as an Exporter of Technology | |
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| Notes | |
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| Chronology | |
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| Bibliography | |
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| Index | |