Technologietransfer Deutschland - Japan von 1850 bis zur Gegenwart (Germany-Japan Technology Transfer from 1850 to the Present)

Editor Erich Pauer is professor at the Center for Japanese Studies at the University of Marburg and an acknowledged expert on Japanese economic and technological history. In July 1990 he organized a symposium at which twelve experts from both Germany and Japan convened in Tokyo to discuss questions concerning the exchange of technological knowledge between Germany and Japan during the last hundred years. The symposium was a first approach to this complex theme both analytically, in the context of theories of technological transfer, and historically, by drawing on many case studies.

This book covers a wide range of issues ranging from direct investment by Siemens in pre-World War I Japan to the steel industry, the information industries and nuclear energy in the post-World War II era.