Dissertation Research: Civilian Application of Military Aeronautical Technology in Japan, 1920s-1960s

论文研究：1920 年代至 1960 年代日本军事航空技术的民用应用

• 批准号: 0241096
• 负责人: James Bartholomew
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: Ohio State University Research Foundation -DO NOT USE
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2003
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2003-02-01 至 2004-01-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0241096&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Dissertation; Research; Civilian; Application; Military

This dissertation project will offer a new non-Western perspective that will contribute appreciably to greater international and social understanding about transfer of engineering knowledge from war to peace. Specifically, it focuses on the transformation of aeronautical technology in Japan from the 1920s through 1960s and for its completion requires data collection and analysis in Tokyo, Kanagawa and Aichi prefectures in Japan for five months. By linking Japan's rapid postwar economic growth during the 1960s to development of wartime technology and engineering culture, this project argues that the wartime engineers rather than civilian engineers shaped postwar, peace-oriented technological development in Japan, as represented in high-speed ground transportation like the bullet train. It will examine the institutional cultures and individual engineers that encouraged the civilian application of military aeronautical technology in trans-World War II Japan, which is an intricately tangled history of war and peace in the social history of technology. The intellectual and social merits of this project are twofold. First, this case study of Japanese aeronautics will expand the range of national comparison in the field, which has exclusively drawn from Western experiences, to a non-Western society that has made a successful contribution. It will redress the imbalance in an area of scholarship where non-Western societies, such as Japan, are underrepresented. Secondly, it will suggest an alternative configuration of social networks between research and educational institutions for successful technological development.

本论文项目将提供一个新的非西方视角，这将大大有助于国际和社会对工程知识从战争到和平的转移的更深入的理解。具体来说，它侧重于日本从 20 年代到 1960 年代航空技术的转型，需要在日本东京、神奈川和爱知县历时五个月的数据收集和分析才能完成。该项目将 1960 年代日本战后经济的快速增长与战时技术和工程文化的发展联系起来，认为是战时工程师而不是民用工程师塑造了日本战后以和平为导向的技术发展，如子弹头列车等高速地面交通所代表的那样。 它将研究二战期间日本鼓励军事航空技术民用的制度文化和个体工程师，这是技术社会历史中错综复杂的战争与和平的历史。该项目的智力和社会价值是双重的。 首先，对日本航空业的案例研究将把该领域的国家比较范围扩大到一个已经做出成功贡献的非西方社会，该领域完全借鉴了西方经验。 它将纠正日本等非西方社会代表性不足的学术领域的不平衡现象。 其次，它将建议研究和教育机构之间的社交网络的替代配置，以实现成功的技术开发。