Science, Technology, and Society in Contemporary Japan (review)

Like many books engaged with the politics and values of science and technology, this volume focuses on Japan's most recent past, and many readers will be pleased with its up-to-the-minute coverage. It takes as its largest theme the contribution of science and technology to economic growth and the well-being of the Japanese people. However, the book suggests that these two goals are often in conflict with one another, pointing out that what benefits local politicians, national bureaucrats, and big business often fails to serve the general public. In this it is squarely in the tradition of a scattering of books that attempt to count the social costs of Japan's rapid technological development

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