20 research outputs found
Recherches sur l'estimation de l'evapotranspiration reelle (ETR) dans le bilan de l'eau a l'echelle regionale.
Revisiting the history of the âMongolian spotâ: The background and implications of a medical term used today
Reasons for and developments in international scientific collaboration: does an AsiaâPacific research area exist from a bibliometric point of view?
The Making of the Japanese Physicist
The image of a hi-tech samurai has often been invoked to describe Japanâs post-World War II economic success. But such references to the role of Japanâs warrior class go back to the beginning of the twentieth century. âScratch a Japanese of the most advanced ideas, and he will show a samuraiâ1âso wrote InazĆ Nitobe in his classic text, Bushido: The Soul of Japan, first published in 1900 and then in a revised form in 1905, the year of Japanâs victory in the Russo-Japanese War (1904â1905). Nitobe, who studied politics and international relations at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore during the years 1884â1887, develops an argument, along the lines that âWhat Japan was she owed to the samurai.â2 He suggests that the samurai became an ideal for the Japanese and that the spirit of bushidĆ permeated all social classes