ミヤガワ　タクヤ   MIYAGAWA Takuya   宮川　卓也    所属   広島修道大学  人間環境学部    職種   准教授
発表年月日	2024/02/15
発表テーマ	Japan Be Re-ambitious for Initiative: Meteorology and Oceanology in Postwar East Asia
会議名	The First Workshop on Trans-Asia Scientific Diplomacy in Cold War Japan and Korea
学会区分	国際的な研究会・シンポジウム等
発表形式	口頭（一般）
単独共同区分	単独
開催地名	Kanagawa University, Yokohama
概要	Soon after the occupation by the Allied Force was over, Japanese scientists began aggressive promotions for their return to international stage in various fields. When the Japanese Empire lost its initiative in science and technology due to the defeat in the Pacific War, many intellectuals claimed that Japan had been much inferior to the US in science and technology (they thought this was because Japan lost the war), and that science and technology would be the decisive factor in Japan’ economic recovery and leadership in Asia as it had been in the imperial era. Hosting international conferences was seen as an excellent opportunity for the purpose: to demonstrate Japan’ ability to be the scientific leader in Asia. Indeed, several international scientific conferences were held in the mid to late 1950s, mainly in Tokyo. In the fields of meteorology and marine sciences, for instance, Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA) hosted the Typhoon Symposium in November 1954 with the assistance of UNESCO; in the late 1950s, the Science Council of Japan (SCJ) co-organized the series of oceanography conferences with UNESCO. Japanese meteorologists and oceanologists invited prominent scholars in each field from Europe and the United States and arranged their lectures to present the latest trends in the fields. Why were Japanese meteorologists and oceanologists so aggressive in their efforts to return to the international academic community? What did Japanese meteorologists and marine scientists aim at in the series of promotional activities? What did the series of return activities bring to Japanese meteorology and oceanology in terms of research, practice, and networking? This paper explores the goals and influence of their return activities on international academic meteorology and marine science in 1950s.