Science of Technology Policy during the Occupation

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A nation-wide paraoia has started which drove the Japanese to the 'progress or perish'drive toward catching up the front of Westem military technology as well as whole enterprise of science. This paranoia has well lasted up until the end of the Second World War in 1945. Subsueing occupation by the American had prohibited for a Japanese to engage in the science of military application, notably in the nuclear and aeronautical. It is significant that even now the Japanese are still behind in nuclear and space science, two major branches of cold-war military-industrial establishment.Instead of militarfy inclination, the hungry postwar Japanese concentrated in science and technology for economic recovery for sheer physical survival. Though by late 1950's, prewar level of living standard was achieved, the inertia persisted up until 1970, when anti-pollution campaign and following oil crisis has changed their emphasis of industrial policy form heavy chemical industry to light fine industry of electronics.