Dr. Takashi Nishiyama
Department of History
SUNY College at Brockport
(585) 395-5687; Fax (585) 395-2620
Office: 141 Albert W. Brown Building
E-Mail: tnishiya@brockport.edu
- Ph. D. The Ohio State University (2004)
- B.A. The Ohio State University (Magna Cum Laude) (1993)
- OpenCourseWare Grant, MIT (2006-2007)
- Twentieth Century Japan Research Awards, University of Maryland (2006)
- Aviation/Space Writers Award, Smithsonian National Air & Space Museum (2004)
- National Science Foundation Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship (2003)
- Postdoctoral Scholar, Dibner Institute for the History of Science and Technology, MIT (2004-2006)
- Kyoryoku Researcher, Research Center for Advanced Science and Technology, Tokyo University (2002-04)
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War, Peace, Non-Weapons Technology: The Japanese National Railway and Products from Defeat, 1880s -1950s, Technology and Culture (Forthcoming)
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Friction between Technological Development and System Management in Japan: The Development of the Shinkansen High-Speed Rail Service as a Case Study, Kagaku, Gijutsu, Shakai (Japan Journal for Science, Technology, and Society) volume 13 (2004), pp.1-23.
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Frameworks for the Growth of Aircraft Design Knowledge in Japan: Horikoshi (1903-1940) as a Case Study, Kagakushi kagaku tetsugaku (History and Philosophy of Science) volume 18 (2004), pp. 119-137.
- Cross-disciplinary Technology Transfer in Trans-World War II Japan: The Japanese High-Speed Bullet Train as a Case Study Comparative Technology Transfer and Society volume 1, number 3 (December 2003), pp.305-325.
- Aeronautical Technology for Pilot Safety: Re-examining Deck-Landing Aircraft in Great Britain, Japan, and the United States, Historia Scientiarum volume 13, number 1 (July 2003), pp.13-32.
| Recent Conference Papers and Other Presentations |
- Kamikazation of wartime Japan, Nihon kagakushi gakkai, Tokyo, May 20, 2006.
- The History of Technology in the United States, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Tokyo, May 30, 2006.
- War, Peace, and Non-Weapons Technology in Modern Japan, 1880s-1950s, Society for the History of Technology, Minneapolis, November 5, 2005.
- Engineering Workforce for War and Peace in Modern Japan, 1868-1945, Michigan State University, September 23, 2005.
- From Kamikaze Aircraft to the Bullet Train: Peace Dividends of Military Technologies in Japan, Dibner Institute, MIT, April 12, 2005
- Technology Transfer in Modern Japan, Association for Asian Studies Regional Conference, Lexington, Kentucky, January 16, 2005.
- Reproducing Kamikaze Technology, 1932-1964: The High-Speed Bullet Train as a Case Study, Yale University, October 9, 2004.
- The Rise of Wartime Military Engineers in Postwar Japan, Waseda University, Tokyo, June 17, 2004.
- Technological Modernity in Postwar Japan, 1955-1964, Research Center for Advanced Science and Technology, Tokyo University, March 19, 2004.
- Japan's Failure to Develop High-Speed Rail Service, 1918-1945, Railway History Society of Japan, Kagoshima University, November 29, 2003.
- Swords into Plowshares: The Kamikaze Origins of the Japanese Bullet Train, Society for Social Studies of Science Conference, Atlanta, October 17, 2003.
- Dr. Nishiyama's work in progress examines the history of Japan from 1918 to 1964, through the lens of ordinary engineers. It focuses on how those engineers solved the moral dilemma of constructing weapons for kamikaze suicide attacks during 1944-1945 -- and how they came to terms with their wartime past after the national defeat in 1945. One technological symbol of this trans-war transition is the high-speed bullet train. The monograph is a cultural history of war, defeat and technology in modern Japan.
