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Godzilla and the Bullet Train: Technology and Culture in Modern Japan

Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyUnited StatesSTS.S28
Free, no sign-up neededFall 2005English
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This course explores how and why Japan, a late-comer to modernization, emerged as an industrial power and the world’s second-richest nation, notwithstanding its recent difficulties. We are particularly concerned with the historical development of technology in Japan especially after 1945, giving particular attention to the interplays between business, ideology, technology, and culture.

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