Alien Science, Indigenous Thought and Foreign Religion: Reconsidering the Reception of Darwinism in Japan

Darwin Commemorations and Three Generations of Historians of Biology

“…Conventional historiography has argued that Japanese people accepted Morse's lecture enthusiastically because there was no religious obstacle, like Christianity, butMigita (2009) argues there was significant resistance from Shintō priests Low (2008). andHung (2009) argue more complicated relationship between Christianity and Darwinism in Meiji Japan.…”