... infrastructure Japan fisheries rights Pearls are composed primarily of nacre, a complex mixture of polysaccharide, protein, and mineral components secreted from the outer mantle tissues of many kinds of shellfish. A pearl can appear, upon cross section and under increasing levels of magnification...

...Sarah Teasley This article explores the agency of animal materiality, class, and context in shaping social values within wood research and manufacturing communities in mid-twentieth-century Japan, with a focus on animal glues ( nikawa 膠) in relation to other adhesives. It relates the materiality...

... constraints and alpine enthusiasms of Meiji Japan (1868–1912). To do so, we turn to Yamasaki Naomasa and Kojima Usui—close friends and pioneers in their respective fields of geography and mountaineering—to show how alpinism helped to launch glaciology as a scientific discipline in Japan. By chronicling...

...Victoria Lee The domestication of penicillin production in Japan was a priority for the Allied occupation government (1945–1952) immediately after World War II, since manufacturing the drug using raw materials available locally would lower the cost of the occupation. In place of employing...

...MORRIS F. LOW ABSTRACT The destruction of Japan's cyclotrons by Occupation Forces after the Pacific War resulted in a major setback for experimental physics in that country. Key figures such as Yoshio Nishina, Sin-itirô Tomonaga, and Ryôkichi Sagane strived to help Japan rebuild its scientific...