Tracing the history of Japanese agricultural science

from Meiji Hokkaido to prewar Taiwan, and from wartime Manchuria to postwar foreign aid, my dissertation examines agricultural science in modern Japan as it was governed by the state, taught by academics, practiced by technocrats, and experienced by settlers. It draws on archives from private and public universities in Japan and its colonies, the colonial bureaucracy, and political debates across the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. In doing so, the dissertation identifies how premodern and pan-Asian ideologies continue to subtend the logic of East Asian nationalism today.