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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 | |