Anglo-American Connections in Japanese Chemistry

Yoshiyuki Kikuchi is Associate Professor at the Graduate University for Advanced Studies (Sokendai), Hayama, Japan. He has published extensively on the history of Japanese chemistry in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries and its global contexts. He previously taught at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA, and Harvard University, USA.

'In this fluent account of the dynamic interplay between individual English and American chemists and their Japanese students in three continents, Kikuchi provides a vivid analysis of how different styles of teaching and research affected attitudes to pure and applied chemistry. His brilliant demonstration of the different cultural functions of professors and assistants, and of the laboratory as a two-way contact zone for cultural exchanges, provides an important model for historians of chemistry.' - William Brock, Emeritus Professor of History of Science, University of Leicester, UK

• 1. Japanese Chemistry Students in Britain and the United States in the 1860s 2. American and British Chemists and Lab-based Chemical Education in Early Meiji Japan 3. The Making of Japanese Chemists in Japan, Britain, and the United States 4. Defining Scientific and Technological Education in Chemistry in Japan, 1880-1886 5. Constructing a Pedagogical Space for Pure Chemistry at the Imperial University 6. Making Use of a Pedagogical Space for Pure Chemistry 7. Connecting Applied Chemistry Teaching to Manufacturing Epilogue: Departure from Meiji Japanese Chemistry