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&#160;International workshopNew Horizons in Modern Japan History of TechnologyMay 29, 2014Needham Research Institute, 8 Sylvester Road, Cambridge, UK http://www.nri.org.uk/seminars.html&#160;The aim of the workshop is to bring together early career and established scholars interested in the history of technology in modern Japan. We will discuss emerging work on the role of technology in transforming Japan into an industrial power in the course of the nineteenth and twentieth-century. Works to be discussed highlight both the perception of technology and technological artifacts as well as the implications of the discourse about science and technology in modern Japanese history. In paying particular attention to materiality we hope to explore Japan's involvement in East Asia through the prism of technical know-how and industry.9.30-10.00:  Welcome and tea10.00-12.30:"Japanese Development Consultancies and Postcolonial Power in Southeast Asia"Aaron Moore (Arizona State University)&#160;"From classroom to factory: Becoming an Engineer in late Meiji Japan"Aleksandra Kobiljski (EHESS/Needham Research Institute)Discussant: TSUKAHARA Togo (University of Kobe)13.30- 16.30:Popularising technology in early Meiji Japan Ruselle Meade (University of Manchester, UK)Western science in the East Asian Empire Building of Japan in Colonial Korea (1910-1945) LEE Jung (Needham Research Institute)Discussant:  TSUKAHARA Togo (University of Kobe16.15 - 18.15Round table: New trends in modern East Asia history of science and technologyWith comments from: Francesca Bray (University of Edinburg) &#38; Erich Pauer (University of Marburg)&#160;&#160;