Science for the Empire: Scientific Nationalism in Modern Japan

1938 the government created the Asia Development Agency (kōain)

The New Order for Greater East Asia was Japan’s colonial vision in which Japan would replace the West as the center of Asia and ultimately the world.

Express Train Asia (Tokkyū Ajia-gō) opened in November 1934. The express train in Japan proper, Swallow (Tsubame-gō), at the time ran at a speed of sixty-seven kilometers per hour. See Kobayashi, Mantetsu, 14; and Satō, Tokkyū Ajia-gō no aikan, 57–58.

fifty-five hundred members. See Ōyodo, Miyamoto, 268.

Riken Zaibatsu in the late 1920s. He

To create a larger budget, the government declared that a “quasi-wartime economic system”

for in late 1937 the younger members took over leadership from the older members. “We will finally be able to regain energy,”

vitamin pioneer and Riken researcher Suzuki Umetarō (who would later become the first director of the Continental Science Institute),

Fairclough, Critical Discourse Analysis, 2. Also see Fairclough, Media Discourse and Analysing Discourse; and Jaworski and Coupland, The Discourse Reader.