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    The scientific object and material diplomacy: The shipment of radioisotopes from the United States to Japan in 1950.Kenji Ito - 2021 - Centaurus 63 (2):296-319.
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    Pedagogy and the Practice of Science: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives.Wiebe E. Bijker, Michael Gordin, Trevor Pinch, Graeme Gooday, Hugh Gusterson & Kenji Ito - 2005 - MIT Press.
    Studies examining the ways in which the training of engineers and scientists shapes their research strategies and scientific identities.
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    The material culture and politics of artifacts in nuclear diplomacy.Maria Rentetzi & Kenji Ito - 2021 - Centaurus 63 (2):233-243.
    This special issue stresses the importance of material culture in diplomatic studies of science and technology. In our studies, objects are considered powerful tokens of complexity in diplomatic encounters and of asymmetry in international relations. The contributors are committed to theorizing about the role of objects in diplomatic exchanges during the postwar period and, at the same time, the role of diplomacy in constituting the materiality of nuclear things. Our approach combines attention to the political and diplomatic nuclear history with (...)
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    “Electron Theory” and the Emergence of Atomic Physics in Japan.Kenji Ito - 2018 - Science in Context 31 (3):293-320.
    ArgumentThis paper discusses one aspect of the context in which atomic physics developed in Japan between 1905 and 1931. It argues that during this period, there was a social context in which atomic physics was valued as a study of the electron and was thus relevant to electrical engineering. To demonstrate this, I first show that after the Russo-Japanese War, electrical engineering was deemed a valuable and viable field of research in Japan. Second, I show that physicists wrote textbooks and (...)
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    Transnational scientific advising: occupied Japan, the United States National Academy of Sciences and the establishment of the Science Council of Japan.Kenji Ito - forthcoming - British Journal for the History of Science:1-15.
    Given that the practices and institutions of knowledge production commonly referred to as ‘science’ are believed to have ‘Western’ origins, their apparent proliferation entails negotiations and power dynamics that shape both science and diplomacy in specific locales. This paper investigates a facet of this co-production of science and diplomacy in the emergence of knowledge infrastructure in Japan during the Allied Occupation. It focuses on the 1947 delegation from the United States National Academy of Sciences to Japan and its role in (...)
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  6. Cultural difference and sameness : historiographic reflections on histories of physics in modern Japan.Kenji Ito - 2017 - In Karine Chemla & Evelyn Fox Keller (eds.), Cultures without culturalism: the making of scientific knowledge. Durham: Duke University Press.
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    Magnetrons and quantum electrodynamics: Engineering and physics in the case of tomonaga Sin-itiro.Kenji Ito - 2017 - Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part B: Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics 60:110-122.
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  8. Modelling the apparent spread of science : some insights from the history of science in Japan.Kenji Ito - 2021 - In David Ludwig & Inkeri Koskinen (eds.), Global Epistemologies and Philosophies of Science. New York: Routeldge.
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    Peace and War: Reminiscences of a Life on the Frontiers of Science. Robert Serber, Robert P. Crease.Kenji Ito - 2000 - Isis 91 (4):808-809.
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    Shigeru Nakayama (ed.), A Social History of Science and Technology in Contemporary Japan. Vol. 1. The Occupation Period, 1945–1952. Melbourne: Trans Pacific Press, 2001. [REVIEW]Kenji Ito - 2003 - Metascience 12 (3):418-420.