Workshop Programme

11:00 Panel 1 3x papers (20 minutes) and discussion

• Ian Rapley; From Zilengo to Platzwechsel: Japanese scientists and foreign languages

• Kikuchi Yoshiyuki; Joji Sakurai’s “The Pleasure of a Rigakusha” (1888) revisited: Was there any difference between a “rigakusha” and “kagakusha“?

• Furukawa Yasu; The Careers of Two Umes (Tsuda Ume and Tange Ume): The Making of the Female Kagakusha in Japan

12:30 -Lunch

1:45– Panel 2: 2x papers (20 minutes) and discussion

• Ariga Nobumichi; Education and Learning: The Scientific Life of Ryokichi Yatabe, Botanist, in the Early Meiji Period

• NozomiMizushima; The Birth of the “Shimin Kagakusha”: an Overview of the Recent Global Hype and Arguments on the Definition of the “Citizen Scientist”

2:45– Coffee Break

3:00– Panel 3 3x papers (20 minutes) and discussion

• Kenji Ito; When did Japanese physicists become “scientists”?: The primacy of research and Takeuchi Tokio’s artificial radium scandal in the early 1940s

• Akihito Suzuki; From Humanistic Learning and Fieldwork of Drugs to Scientific Pharmacology: Continuities and Changes in Japanese Pharmaceutical Studies c.1800-c.1950

• Yakup Bektas; The Scientist as Wizard and the Engineer as Savior in the Stories of Miyazawa Kenji (1896-1933)

4:30–Break

4:45–Comments and Concluding discussion on the major themes of the project.

• Sayaka Oki, comments

• General discussion

6:30End of the workshop