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Dr. Takashi Nishiyama

Office: 141 Albert W. Brown Building
Phone: 585.395.5687
E-Mail: tnishiya@brockport.edu

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)

War, Peace, Non-Weapons Technology: The Japanese National Railway and Products from Defeat, 1880s -1950s, Technology and Cul ture (Forthcoming)
Friction between Technological Development and System Management in Japan: The Development of the Shinkansen High-Speed Rail Service as a Case Study, Kaga ku , G i j utsu , S haka i (Japan Journal for Science, Technology, and Society) volume 13 (2004), pp.1-23.
Frameworks for the Growth of Aircraft Design Knowledge in Japan: Horikoshi (1903-1940) as a Case Study, Kaga ku shi kaga ku t etsu gaku (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 Com para tive 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, His tori a Scient iaru m volume 13, number 1 (July 2003), pp.13-32.

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.

Dr. Wakefield interviewed by Ed Hinton for ESPN on NASCAR, Jimmie Johnson, and Chad Knaus

Dr. Moyer on Le Roy Health Crisis & Salem Witch trials

Dr. Macpherson wins prestigious Goveia Book Prize from the Association of Caribbean Historians

Meet and Greet the Professors, March 21st, 2:30-3:20. Location TBD.

Robert Marcus Memorial Lecture, April 5, 2012, 7:30 pm, New York Room, Cooper Hall.