Akihito Suzuki

Introduction
November 19, 2021

Life, Science, and Power in History and Philosophy

Osamu Kanamori (1954–2016) was a prolific author of science and technology studies in Japan in the late twentieth and...
book review
November 18, 2021

Mental Disease and Japanese Modernity: From the Possessed Mind/Body to the Diseased Mind/Body

Research into the history of Japanese psychiatry has shown some signs of change in the last couple of decades and is...
essay
November 15, 2021

The Life, Restoration, and Faking of the Bust of Nagayo Matarō

"The Life, Restoration, and Faking of the Bust of Nagayo Matarō." East Asian Science, Technology and Society: An...
essay
November 15, 2021

Osamu Kanamori and His Legacies on Epistemology, Criticism, and Cultural Study of Science

Osamu Kanamori (金森修) authored sixteen books that examined science from the perspectives of various meta-levels.
Research Article
November 15, 2021

Public Health, Laboratory Experiment, and Asymptomatic Carriers in Japan, ca. 1920–1950

From the 1920s and 1930s, discussion of asymptomatic carriers started to appear in Japan and quickly became well...