Anglo-Japanese and American-Japanese connections in chemistry had a
major impact on the institutionalization of scientific and technological
higher education in Japan from the late nineteenth century and onwards.
They helped define the structure of Japanese scientific pedagogical and
research system that lasted well into the post-World World II period of
massive technological development, when it became one of the biggest
providers of chemists and chemical engineers in the world next to Europe
and the United States. In telling this story, Anglo-American Connections
in Japanese Chemistry explores various sites of science education such
as teaching laboratories and classrooms - where British and American
teachers mingled with Japanese students - to shed new light on the lab
as a site of global human encounter and intricate social relations that
shaped scientific practice.