From Samurai to Engineer-Manager
From Samurai to Engineer-Manager reconstructs the life and work of the Japanese mining engineer Ōhara 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/technic...
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| description | From Samurai to Engineer-Manager reconstructs the life and work of the Japanese mining engineer Ōhara 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 Ōhara 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, Ōhara Junnosuke studied at the Imperial College of Engineering in Tōkyō, 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 Ōmori Mine in Iwami, where he oversaw the construction of a modern silver production plant. His premature death in 1896 ended a promising career. Ōhara’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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| spelling | doab-20.500.12854ir-1742822026-03-24T06:05:03Z From Samurai to Engineer-Manager Pauer, Erich Meiji period industrialisation Japanese mining history Technical education Japan History of technology Japan Engineering elite formation Public works development Nineteenth century Japanese engineering careers thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHF Asian history thema EDItEUR::G Reference, Information and Interdisciplinary subjects::GT Interdisciplinary studies::GTM Regional / International studies thema EDItEUR::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies::DN Biography and non-fiction prose::DNB Biography: general::DNBT Biography: science, technology and medicine thema EDItEUR::T Technology, Engineering, Agriculture, Industrial processes::TT Other technologies and applied sciences::TTU Mining technology and engineering From Samurai to Engineer-Manager reconstructs the life and work of the Japanese mining engineer Ōhara 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 Ōhara 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, Ōhara Junnosuke studied at the Imperial College of Engineering in Tōkyō, 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 Ōmori Mine in Iwami, where he oversaw the construction of a modern silver production plant. His premature death in 1896 ended a promising career. Ōhara’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. 2026-03-24T06:04:58Z 2026-03-24T06:04:58Z 2026-03-23T15:19:40Z 2026 book ONIX_20260323T152922_9781040841174_7 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/112149 9781040841174 9781003696186 9781040843659 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/174282 eng open access image/jpeg n/a https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/112149/1/9781040841174.pdf Taylor & Francis Routledge 10.4324/9781003696186 10.4324/9781003696186 fa69b019-f4ee-4979-8d42-c6b6c476b5f0 9781040841174 9781003696186 9781040843659 Routledge 224 Oxford open access |
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