Kenji Ito

book review
November 18, 2021

Laura Hein, Reasonable Men, Powerful Words: Political Culture and Expertise in Twentieth-Century Japan

This book is a collective biography of the Ōuchi group, Ōuchi Hyōe (1888–1980), and his five students, Arisawa Hiromi...
Panel Discussion: The Semicentennial of The Structure of Scientific Revolutions and East Asian STS
November 17, 2021

Thomas Kuhn's The Structure of Scientific Revolutions and Early Social Studies of Science in Japan

In this commentary, I examine early responses to Thomas Kuhn's ideas in Japan and show how Kuhn's ideas stimulated...