Science of Technology Policy during the Occupation

一种全国性的偏执狂已经开始了，这种偏执狂驱使日本人朝着追赶西方军事技术和整个科学事业的前沿前进，要么进步，要么灭亡。这种偏执一直持续到1945年第二次世界大战结束。随后的美国占领禁止日本人从事军事应用的科学，特别是在核能和航空方面。重要的是，即使到现在，日本在核科学和空间科学方面仍然落后，这是冷战军事工业机构的两个主要分支。战后饥饿的日本人没有军事倾向，而是专注于科学和技术，以实现经济复苏，纯粹是为了生存。虽然到20世纪50年代末，生活水平达到了战前水平，但这种惰性一直持续到1970年，当时反污染运动和随之而来的石油危机使工业政策的重点从重化学工业转向电子轻工业。

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.