From Samurai to Engineer-manager: The Case Study of Ohara Junnosuke (1859–96), Mining Specialist in Meiji Japan - Hardcover

Pauer, Erich

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 9048570700 ISBN 13: 9789048570706

Verlag: Pallas Publications, 2026

Inhaltsangabe

From Samurai to Engineer-Manager reconstructs the life and work of the Japanese mining engineer Ohara Junnosuke in the early decades of Japan’s industrialization.

While Japan's political and socio-economic development during the Meiji period has been extensively researched, the technological/technical foundations that were crucial to its success have remained largely obscure. Drawing on unique, mostly handwritten sources including lecture notes, internship and work experience reports, travelogues and diaries, the example of Ohara Junnosuke illustrates the beginnings of engineering education in Japan and its intertwining with the subsequent professional career of the protagonist. Born in 1859 into a samurai family, Ohara Junnosuke studied at the Imperial College of Engineering in Tokyo, the first higher technical school in Japan. He worked for the Ministry of Public Works, then joined a private mining company as head manager of the Omori Mine in Iwami, where he oversaw the construction of a modern silver production plant. His premature death in 1896 ended a promising career.

Ohara’s education and professional career are in many ways typical of Japan’s emerging technical elite and their contribution to the industrialization. The book will be of interest to scholars in the fields of history of technology, economic history and history of education not only concerning Japan, but in general.

The Open Access version of this book, available at http://www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC BY-NC-ND) 4.0 license.

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Erich Pauer is Professor emeritus of Japanese Studies at the University of Marburg (Germany) and presently engaged in the Centre Européen d’Études Japonaises d’Alsace (CEEJA) in Colmar, France. He has written widely on Japan’s history of technology and economic development from the Edo period to World War II. His recent publications include Technical Knowledge in Early Modern Japan (ed. with Ruselle Meade 2020), Accessing Technical Education in Modern Japan 2 vols. (ed. with Regine Mathias, 2022).

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Pallas Publications
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2026
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 9048570700
• ISBN 13: 9789048570706
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Anzahl der Seiten: 232
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Routledge; https://www.routledge-ny.com/; ; Stockst?dter Str. 20; Gro?ostheim; Bayern; Deutschland