Faculty of Economics Department of Contemporary Economics
Degree
PhD (History of Science, Technology and Medicine)
Research funding number
70456341
Profile
I am a social historian of science, specializing in the history of chemistry in nineteenth and twentieth century Japan and its global context. My research topics include pedagogy, laboratory designs, sites of scientific practice, international cooperation in science, Anglo-Japanese and Dutch-Japanese relations, and institutionalization of British chemistry in the 19th and 20th century. I have also been working on the history of the Institute for Molecular Science (IMS, Okazaki City, Aichi prefecture) since 2007 and am interested in molecular science, physical chemistry, and chemical physics in Japan after the Second World War.
Sociology/History of science and technology / Sociology/History of science and technology / History of Chemistry, History of Japanese Science and Technology, History of Anglo-Japanese Relations, History of British Science, History of Universities
JSHC Academic Award, The Japanese Society for the History of Chemistry
May 2007
"The English Model of Chemical Education in Meiji Japan: Transfer and Acculturation", New Researcher Award, History of Science Society of Japan
Jun 2004
“Hendrik Kramer Hommes and His Chemical Table: Dutch Original of Seimi Binran and Its Social Background in the Mid-19th Century”, Best Paper Award, Japanese Society for the History of Chemistry
Japanese Society for the History of Chemistry (Part:Contributor, Chapter 7, Section 3 "How overseas students from the Choshu and Satsuma Domains encountered chemistry in Victorian London)
Ohmsha Jan 2019 ISBN:9784274222511
Igniting the Chemical Ring of Fire: Historical Evolution of the Chemical Communities of the Pacific Rim
Seth C Rasmussen (Part:Contributor, Chapter 6: International Relations of the Japanese Chemical Community)
World Scientific Mar 2018
Encyclopedic Dictionary of the History of Chemistry
Japanese Society for the History of Chemistry (Part:Joint Editor)
Apr 2017 ISBN:4759818391
1914-1918-Online. International Encyclopedia of the First World War
Yoshiyuki Kikuchi (Part:Contributor, Science and Technology (Japan))
David G. Wittner and Philip C. Brown (Part:Contributor, Chapter 3: An Emperor's Chemist in War and Peace)
Routledge Mar 2016 ISBN:113890533X
The International Workshop on the History of Chemistry 2015 Tokyo (IWHC 2015 Tokyo) “Transformation of Chemistry from the 1920 to the 1960s”: Proceedings
Masanori Kaji, Yasu Furukawa, Hiroaki Tanaka and Yoshiyuki Kikuchi (Part:Joint Editor, San-ichiro Mizushima and the Realignment of the International Relation of the Japanese Chemical Community)
Japanese Society for the History of Chemistry Feb 2016
Hugh Cortazzi (Part:Contributor, Sakurai Joji (1858–1939): Leading Chemist and No Drama Specialist; and Edward Divers (1837-1912) and Robert William Atkinson (1850-1929): Influential Teachers of Chemistry in Meiji Japan)
The journal of science policy and research management 29(2) 90-105 Sep 2014 [Invited]
Policy discussions, including those in science and technology policy, have long emphasized the importance of the training of expertise to respond to globalization and the development of knowledge-based societies. Simultaneously, it has been increa...
Cross-National Odyssey of a Chemist: Edward Divers at London, Galway and Tokyo
Yoshiyuki Kikuchi
History of Science 50(3) 289-314 Sep 2012 [Refereed][Invited]
Historia scientiarum. Second series : international journal of the History of Science Society of Japan 18(2) 100-120 Nov 2008 [Refereed][Invited]
This paper discusses how education in applied chemistry at Tokyo University during the Meiji period involved three elements of teaching practice-analysis, fieldwork and engineering. The English chemist Robert William Atkinson was appointed in 1874...
"The Pleasure of a Rigakusha" (1888) revisited: Was there any difference between a "rigakusha" and "kagakusha"?[Invited]
Yoshiyuki Kikuchi
"The Birth of the Kagakusha" Workshop (Sokendai, Hayama, Japan) 30 Mar 2019
IUPAC and Chemistry in East Asia[Invited]
Yoshiyuki Kikuchi
In the shadow of a Centennial: writing the history of IUPAC (1919-2019) 16 Nov 2018
History of Anglo- and US-Japan Relations in Chemistry and the 150th Anniversary of the Meiji Restoration[Invited]
Yoshiyuki Kikuchi
2018 Annual Meeting of the Japanese Society for the History of Chemistry 7 Jul 2018
Fragmentation and Coordination in the British Chemical Community: Professionalisattion, Specialisation and Publicness
Yoshiyuki Kikuchi
68th Annual Meeting of the Society of Western History of Japan 20 May 2018
Japan's Engagement with International Chemistry, 1900-1930
Yoshiyuki Kikuchi
International Conference on the History of Chemistry 30 Aug 2017
Domestic and International Dimensions of the Institutionalization of British Chemistry[Invited]
Yoshiyuki Kikuchi
International Workshop on Institutionalization of Science and the Public Sphere in Modern Britain 26 Mar 2017
Ikeda Kikunae and Reactions to Energetics in Japan[Invited]
Yoshiyuki Kikuchi
International Workshop on the History of Energetics 17 Mar 2017
Multi-layeredness and international aspects of the Institutionalisation of British Chemistry
Yoshiyuki Kikuchi
2016 Annual Meeting of the Japanese Society for the History of Chemistry 9 Jul 2016
International Relations of the Japanese Chemical Community[Invited]
Yoshiyuki Kikuchi
International Chemical Congress of Pacific Basin Societies (Pacifichem) 2015, Hawaii Convention Center, Honolulu, HI. 19 Dec 2015
Styles of Laboratory Science in Meiji and Taisho Japan[Invited]
Yoshiyuki Kikuchi
International Conference “Training of Research Scholars: Institutions, Disciplines, and National Cultures, 1860-1945”: Academia Sinica, Taiwan 9 Dec 2015
International Science in Japanese Eyes:Joji Sakurai, the International Research Council and the Pacific Science Association after the First World War
Yoshiyuki Kikuchi
History of Science Society Meeting: San Francisco, CA 2015 19 Nov 2015
Passages to Molecular Science: Interface between physics and chemistry
Yoshiyuki Kikuchi
2015 Annual Meeting of the Japanese Society for the History of Chemistry 5 Jul 2015
San-ichiro Mizushima and the Reconfiguration of International Relations of Japanese Chemistry
Yoshiyuki Kikuchi
International Workshop on the History of Chemistry (IWHC) 3 Mar 2015
The International Relations of San-ichiro Mizushima
Yoshiyuki Kikuchi
Annual Meeting of the Japanese Society for the History of Chemistry 5 Jul 2014
The Chemical Laboratory as a Contact Zone at Tokyo University, 1885-1916[Invited]
Yoshiyuki Kikuchi
SOKENDAI “Science and Society” Workshop (No. 1) in Hayama. May 3 and 4, 2014. Observational and Experimental Objects: Science Studies of Materials and Instruments in the Laboratory and the Field. 4 May 2014
Only connect: Laboratory design and the genesis of physical chemistry in Meiji Japan
Yoshiyuki Kikuchi
History of Science Society Meeting: Boston, MA 2013 24 Nov 2013
Joji Sakurai and the Development of Anglo-Japanese Relations in Chemistry, 1863-1939[Invited]
Yoshiyuki Kikuchi
Royal Society of Chemistry Thomas Graham Lecture (London, UK) 22 Nov 2013
Evolving network of the sites of chemistry in Meiji and Taisho Japan, 1868-1926[Invited]
Yoshiyuki Kikuchi
Workshop "Sites of Chemistry in the Twentieth Century" (Uppsala, Sweden) 21 Aug 2013
Making chemical technology travel: book illustrations and the teaching of chemical technology worldwide in the mid-nineteenth century
Yoshiyuki Kikuchi
24th International Congress of History of Science, Technology and Medicine (Manchester, UK) 22 Jul 2013
Anglo-American and German connections in Japanese Chemistry: The Lab as Contact Zone[Invited]
Yoshiyuki Kikuchi
Royal Netherlands Chemical Society, Chemistry Historical Group (Amsterdam) 27 Feb 2013
Contact zones and the making of chemistry teaching in Meiji Japan
Yoshiyuki Kikuchi
IIAS Lunchtime lecture (Leiden, Netherlands) 16 Jan 2013
Global/local interactions, Universities, and Contact/trading zones in Japanese Science and Technology
Yoshiyuki Kikuchi
Lunchtime lecture for the Research Group “Science, Technology, and Policy Studies (STePS),” University of Twente (Enschede, Netherlands) 6 Nov 2012
Anglo-American connections in Japanese chemistry
Yoshiyuki Kikuchi
7th Three Societies Meeting (Philadelphia, PA, USA) Jul 2012
An Emperor’s Chemist at War and in Peacetime: Sakurai Jōji during the Russo-Japanese and First World Wars
Yoshiyuki Kikuchi
Science, Technology, and Medicine in East Asia: Policy, Practice, and Implications in a Global Perspective (Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, USA) Oct 2011
Cross-national Odyssey of a Chemist: Edward Divers (1837-1912) at London, Galway and Tokyo
Yoshiyuki Kikuchi
Science and Technology in the European Periphery (STEP) Meeting (Galway, Ireland) Jun 2010
Japanese Chemistry and the Russo-Japanese War
Yoshiyuki Kikuchi
History of Science Society Meeting (Phoenix, AZ, USA) Nov 2009
World War I, international participation and reorganization of the Japanese Chemical Community[Invited]
Yoshiyuki Kikuchi
23rd International Congress of History of Science and Technology (Budapest, Hungary) Jul 2009
Anglo-Japanese Chemistry Contacts in Action: The English Model of Chemical Education in Meiji Japan
Yoshiyuki Kikuchi
History of Science Society Meeting (Pittsburgh, PA) Nov 2008
Constructing Laboratory Chemistry Teaching at Japanese Inland Imperial Universities
Yoshiyuki Kikuchi
12th International Conference of the History of Science in East Asia (Baltimore, MD, USA) Jul 2008
The History of Chemstry in Early Meiji Japan and Anglo-Japanese Relations: Focusing on the sources used
Yoshiyuki Kikuchi
Society for the History of Western Learning in Japan monthly meeting (Juntendo University, Japan) Jun 2008
The History of Chemistry in Early Meiji Japan and Anglo-Japanese Relations
Yoshiyuki Kikuchi
Mar 2008
Hierarchy, Supervisory practice and institutional styles in a chemical laboratory: Constructing the laboratory teaching of the Department of Chemistry, Tokyo Imperial University in the Meiji period[Invited]
Yoshiyuki Kikuchi
Johns Hopkins University Workshop “Locating Japanese Science and Technology: Place and the Production of Knowledge” (Baltimore, MD, USA) Jan 2008
Analysis, Fieldwork and Engineering: Accumulated Practice and Multiple Identity of Applied Chemistry at Tokyo University, 1874-1900
Yoshiyuki Kikuchi
6th International Conference on the History of Chemistry (Leuven, Belgium) Aug 2007
History of ‘Pure’ and ‘Applied’ Chemistry in Meiji Japan and Beyond[Invited]
Yoshiyuki Kikuchi
UCLA-KEK-Sokendai Symposium “Strategies for Studying Contemporary Sciences in Japan and the US” Jul 2007
London, Manchester and Tokyo Models of Chemical Education in the latter half of the 19th century[Invited]
Yoshiyuki Kikuchi
Tokyo Institute of Technology Tuesday Seminar Jun 2007
My research experience in Anglo-Japanese Relations in Chemistry[Invited]
Yoshiyuki Kikuchi
Japanese Society for the History of Chemistry Meeting (Aichi Prefectural University) Jun 2007
Japan and the Chemists at University College London
Yoshiyuki Kikuchi
History of Science Society of Japan Annual Meeting (Kyoto Sangyo University) May 2007
The English Model of Chemical Education in Meiji Japan: Transfer and Acculturation
Yoshiyuki Kikuchi
22nd International Congress of History of Science (Beijing, China) Jul 2005
Japanese Samurai Students at University College London: Their Vision of Science and Technology[Invited]
Yoshiyuki Kikuchi
Lunchtime Seminar, University of Manchester Centre for the History of Science, Technology and Medicine (Manchester, UK) Feb 2005
The Impact of Chemical Education at University College London on Japanese Chemistry, Education and Industry[Invited]
Yoshiyuki Kikuchi
Society for the History of Alchemy and Chemistry Meeting "Chemistry at University College” Feb 2005
Hired Foreigners, Overseas Students and the Transfer of an English Model of Chemistry into Meiji Japan
Yoshiyuki Kikuchi
British Society for the History of Science Annual Meeting (Liverpool, UK) Jul 2004
Joji Sakurai and the Transfer of a British Model of Chemistry to Meiji Japan
Yoshiyuki Kikuchi
British Society for the History of Science Postgraduate Conference (Manchester, UK) Jan 2004
Applied Physical Chemistry in Japan and the Electrochemical Association
Yoshiyuki Kikuchi
Japanese Society for the History of Chemistry Annual Meeting (Fukuoka Jo Gakuin University) Jun 2002
The Formation of Physical Chemistry in Japan at the Turn of the Century
Yoshiyuki Kikuchi
21st International Congress of History of Science (Mexico City, Mexico) Jul 2001
Reappraisal of the Energeticism of Kikunae Ikeda
Yoshiyuki Kikuchi
Japanese Society for the History of Chemistry Annual Meeting (Tokyo University of Foreign Studies) Jun 2001
Wilhelm Ostwald and Japanese Chemists
Yoshiyuki Kikuchi
Workshop “Wilhelm Ostwald and the Crossroad of Chemistry, Philosophy, and Media Culture” (Universität Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany) Nov 2000
The Dutch Original of Seini Binran translated by Kawano Teizo: Background of the visualisation of chemical experimental practice in the Netherlands
Yoshiyuki Kikuchi
Japanese Society for the History of Chemistry Annual Meeting (Nagoya, Aichi) Jun 2000
Problems in quantitative assessment of the development of the Japanese chemical community in the Meiji and Taisho periods
Yoshiyuki Kikuchi
Japanese Society for the History of Chemistry Annual Meeting (University of Tokyo Komaba Second Campus) Jun 1999
"Science" in the College of Science at Japanese Imperial Universities in the Meiji and Taisho Periods: between teaching and research
Yoshiyuki Kikuchi
Symposium "Philosophizing Science: Interdisciplinary Approach" (Nagoya University School of Humanities and Informatics) Jan 1999
Joji Sakurai and Physical Chemistry in Japan
Yoshiyuki Kikuchi
Japanese Society for the History of Chemistry Annual Meerting (Tsuyama, Okayama) Oct 1998
Mach, Ostwald and Wald: Mach and Chemists
Yoshiyuki Kikuchi
History of Science Society of Japan Annual meeting (Aichi University Toyohashi Campus) May 1998
Development of Clausius's view on the second law of thermodynamics
Yoshiyuki Kikuchi
History of Science Society of Japan Annual Meeting (Nihon University Shonan campus) Jun 1995
Journal of history of science, Japan. Series II 33(192) 221-225 Jan 1995
In 1990 Tokyo Denki University acquired a collection of books and papers of Charles L. Clarke, a co-worker of Thomas A. Edison. The authors have identified the collection's two books with the copies formerly owned by the German physicist, Rudolf C...
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