The Japanese and Western Science

by Masao Watanabe

The Japanese first encountered Western scientific technology around 1543, when the Portuguese drifted ashore and left them firearms. For the next few centuries Japan's policy of national isolation severely limited contact with the West. In the middle of the nineteenth century, when Commodore Perry introduced the Japanese to a few of the West's technological achievements, they realized how vulnerable their technological ignorance made them and felt...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0812282523
• ISBN13: 9780812282528
• Release Date: January 1991
• Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press Anniversary
• Length: 128 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.3" x 9.3"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary