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Modern science in Japan has been described as derivative and lacking in creativity. This book argues that Japan has actually built up a tradition of scientific research that is one of the most important in the world by drawing on its own late feudal Tokugawa period and on Western science.
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| ISBN: | 9780300055801 |
| Publisher: | Yale University Press |
| Imprint: | Yale University Press |
| Pub date: | 11 Mar 1993 |
| Language: | English |
| Number of pages: | 392 |
| Weight: | 635g |
| Height: | 155mm |
| Width: | 235mm |
| Spine width: | 31mm |
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