FOSTERING INNOVATIONS AND TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENT DURING
THE MEIJI: SOME OBSERVATIONS ON THE ADAPTABILITY OF JAPANESE
CULTURE
by Prof. Josefino C. Sianghio
The article deals with how Japanese culture?language and education in particular?
facilitated the diffusion of foreign technology during the Meiji, one of the most important periods
in Japanese history. It gives examples of some aspects of Japanese culture that favored the entry
of foreign technology during Japan’s Westernization and modernization periods. These two
processes also shaped Japan’s educational system, and explain sociologically the nature of
Japanese culture.
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