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Ideology, Society, and the Origins of Nuclear Power in Japan

“…In the context of East Asia, Science, Technology and Society studies (STS) is clearly a site of intellectual inquiry awash with interesting and fruitful theoretical approaches and conceptual frames (Mizuno 2012). This variety of intellectual endeavour is no bad thing according to a recent commentator, who likens the field to 'an elephant whose shape we are trying to determine by touching it in the dark' (Fan 2012: 487).…”