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This new ethnographic study looks of Japan's scientists looks firsthand at career structures and organizational issues that have hampered the advancement of scientists and scientific research in Japan. It provides analysis of the problem of career mobility in science, the status quo in university and government laboratories, relations between scientists and lay administrators and the problems encountered by women scientists. Japanese Science contests the view that Japan's relatively poor scientific record has been the product of cultural factors and instead demonstrates the crucial importance of moribund policy decisions in holiding back dynamic and ambitious scientists.
This new ethnographic study looks of Japan's scientists looks
firsthand at career structures and organizational issues that have
hampered the advancement of scientists and scientific research in
Japan. It provides analysis of the problem of career mobility in
science, the status quo in university and government laboratories,
relations between scientists and lay administrators and the
problems encountered by women scientists. Japanese Science contests
the view that Japan's relatively poor scientific record has been
the product of cultural factors and instead demonstrates the
crucial importance of moribund policy decisions in holiding back
dynamic and ambitious scientists.
The description for this book, Family Planning in Japanese Society:
Traditional Birth Control in a Modern Urban Culture, will be
forthcoming.
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