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Posturing for Modernity: Mishima Michiyoshi and School Hygiene in Meiji Japan (2012)

Nakayama, Izumi (Author)

East Asian Science, Technology and Society: An International Journal
Volume: 6, no. 3
Issue: 3
Pages: 355-378

DOI: 10.1215/18752160-1727678

Publication Date: 2012
Edition Details: Part of section “Science and Nationalism, Part 2”
Language: English

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Public health National identity Hygiene Medicine and government 19th century 20th century East Asia Japan Mishima, Michiyoshi

This article examines Mishima Michiyoshi (1866--1925) and his school hygiene research in relation to the significance of posture to physical and political modernity in Meiji Japan. Investigating Mishima's nationwide survey of primary-school children's health and physical development in Japan and subsequent contested discussions of children's posture, the article explores how new kinds of Japanese physique were envisioned by medical experts and state authorities. The postures of the schoolchildren were viewed as reflections of Japan's developing modernity in a variety of forms. Different theories contended, and a range of visions of a modern civilization was advanced, some of which had an influence on theories and practices of hygienic modernity even into the twenty-first century.

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