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Research --- Science --- History --- history --- J7000 --- -Research --- -Science --- Science research --- Scientific research --- Information services --- Learning and scholarship --- Methodology --- Research teams --- Natural science --- Science of science --- Sciences --- Japan: Natural sciences and technology -- general and history --- E-books --- -Japan: Natural sciences and technology -- general and history --- Japan: Science and technology -- general and history --- Research - Japan - History --- Science - Japan - History --- Science - history - Japan --- Research - history - Japan

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What is time made of? We might balk at such a question, and reply that time is not made of anything-it is an abstract and universal phenomenon. In Making Time, Yulia Frumer upends this assumption, using changes in the conceptualization of time in Japan to show that humans perceive time as constructed and concrete. In the mid-sixteenth century, when the first mechanical clocks arrived in Japan from Europe, the Japanese found them interesting but useless, because they failed to display time in units that changed their length with the seasons, as was customary in Japan at the time. In 1873, however, the Japanese government adopted the Western equal-hour system as well as Western clocks. Given that Japan carried out this reform during a period of rapid industrial development, it would be easy to assume that time consciousness is inherent to the equal-hour system and a modern lifestyle, but Making Time suggests that punctuality and time-consciousness are equally possible in a society regulated by a variable-hour system, arguing that this reform occurred because the equal-hour system better reflected a new conception of time - as abstract and universal-which had been developed in Japan by a narrow circle of astronomers, who began seeing time differently as a result of their measurement and calculation practices. Over the course of a few short decades this new way of conceptualizing time spread, gradually becoming the only recognized way of treating time.

Time measurements --- History --- Japan --- Time --- Measurement --- 529.7 --- 529.7 Astronomic determination of time. Measurement of time. Chronometry. Transcription of time. Regulation of time. The clock --- Astronomic determination of time. Measurement of time. Chronometry. Transcription of time. Regulation of time. The clock --- Physical measurements --- Vibration --- Clocks and watches --- J7130 --- Japan: Natural sciences and technology -- astronomy -- chronology, horology and calendars --- Japan: Science and technology -- astronomy -- chronology, horology and calendars --- History. --- Japan. --- Tokugawa. --- abstract. --- astronomers. --- constructed. --- measurement. --- modernization. --- reform. --- time. --- variable hour.

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Quoting from a reader's report "this is an original and compelling synthesis of the environmental history of Korea and Japan." Taking the history of Japan and Korea and their environmental interactions from late Pleistocene down to about 1870 AD, the author makes a convincing case for viewing the two countries together, as a history, particularly when looking at their pre-industrial experiences. Drawing from a rare combination of knowledge of both countries, Conrad Totman reveals the extent of shared timing, substance, and dynamics in the political, social, and economic development of the two countries, and in their relationship to the ecosystem. With extensive bibliography, chronology, glossary, maps and graphs.A real must.

Human ecology --- Agriculture --- History --- Korea --- Japan --- Environmental conditions --- History. --- Environmental conditions. --- J7510 --- J4000 --- J8100 --- J8000 --- J4419 --- K9931 --- K9300 --- K9974 --- K9413.70 --- Japan: Natural sciences and technology -- biology -- ecology (general) --- Japan: Social sciences in general, social history --- Japan: Technology and industry -- agricultural technology --- Japan: Technology and industry -- general and history --- Japan: Economy and industry -- industrial organization and relations -- industry and society and environment --- Korea: Science and technology -- biology -- ecology --- Korea: Social sciences -- general, social and cultural history --- Korea: Science and technology -- technology -- biological and agricultural technology --- Korea: Economy and industry -- relations -- environment --- Ecology --- Ecologie humaine --- Environnement --- Histoire --- Environment, Human --- Human beings --- Human environment --- Ecological engineering --- Human geography --- Nature --- Farming --- Husbandry --- Industrial arts --- Life sciences --- Food supply --- Land use, Rural --- Social aspects --- Effect of environment on --- Effect of human beings on --- Nihon --- Nippon --- Iapōnia --- Zhāpān --- I︠A︡ponii︠a︡ --- Yapan --- Japon --- Japão --- Japam --- Mư̄ang Yīpun --- Prathēt Yīpun --- Yīpun --- Jih-pen --- Riben --- Government of Japan --- 日本 --- 日本国 --- Nipponkoku --- Nippon-koku --- Nihonkoku --- Nihon-koku --- State of Japan --- Япония --- Japani --- اليابان --- al-Yābān --- يابان --- Yābān --- Japonsko --- Giappone --- Japonia --- Japonya --- J7000 --- J7590 --- Japan: Science and technology -- general and history --- Japan: Natural sciences and technology -- biology -- biological and agricultural technology --- Japan: Science and technology -- biology -- biological and agricultural technology --- Japan: Science and technology -- biology -- ecology (general) --- Jepun --- Yapon --- Yapon Ulus --- I︠A︡pon --- Япон --- I︠A︡pon Uls --- Япон Улс

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Edited by Roy Starrs, this collection of essays by an international group of leading experts on Japanese religion, anthropology, history, literature and music presents new research and thinking on the long and complex relationship between culture and disaster in Japan, one of the most “disaster-prone” countries in the world. Focusing first on responses to the triple disasters of March 2011, the book then puts the topic in a wider historical context by looking at responses to earlier disasters, both natural and man-made, including the great quakes of 1995 and 1923 and the atomic bombings of 1945. This wide-ranging “double structure” enables an in-depth understanding of the complexities of the issues involved that goes well beyond the clichés and the headlines.

J5500.90 --- J5509 --- J5500.80 --- J7400 --- Japan: Literature -- history and criticism -- postwar Shōwa (1945- ), Heisei period (1989- ), contemporary --- Japan: Literature -- theory, methodology and philosophy --- Japan: Literature -- history and criticism -- Gendai (1926- ), Shōwa period, 20th century --- Japan: Natural sciences and technology -- geology --- Japan: Science and technology -- geology --- Disasters --- Tohoku Earthquake and Tsunami, Japan, 2011. --- Fukushima Nuclear Disaster, Japan, 2011. --- Typhoons --- Floods --- Atomic bomb --- Kanto Earthquake, Japan, 1923. --- Disasters in literature. --- Japanese literature --- Calamities --- Catastrophes --- Curiosities and wonders --- Accidents --- Hazardous geographic environments --- Great Kanto Earthquake, Japan, 1923 --- Great Tokyo Earthquake, Japan, 1923 --- Tokyo Earthquake, Japan, 1923 --- Earthquakes --- A-bomb --- Atom bomb --- Bombs --- Nuclear weapons --- Flooding --- Inundations --- Natural disasters --- Water --- Cyclones --- Fukushima I Nuclear Disaster, Japan, 2011 --- Fukushima II Nuclear Disaster, Japan, 2011 --- Fukushima Accident, Japan, 2011 --- Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Disaster, Japan, 2011 --- Fukushima Daini Nuclear Disaster, Japan, 2011 --- Fukushima Disaster, Japan, 2011 --- Fukushima Nuclear Accident, Japan, 2011 --- Nuclear power plants --- Tohoku Earthquake and Tsunami, Japan, 2011 --- Great East Japan Disaster, Japan, 2011 --- Great East Japan Earthquake, Japan, 2011 --- Great Tohoku Earthquake, Japan, 2011 --- Great Tohoku Kanto Earthquake, Japan, 2011 --- Northeast Region Pacific Ocean Offshore Earthquake, Japan, 2011 --- Pacific Offshore Tohoku Region Earthquake, Japan, 2011 --- Tohoku Pacific Ocean Earthquake, Japan, 2011 --- Tsunamis --- Fukushima Nuclear Disaster, Japan, 2011 --- Social aspects --- History. --- History --- Religious aspects --- History and criticism.