The Politics of Displays: Science and Technology Exhibitions in Cold War Japan.
This article investigates how science and technology, especially nuclear energy and space travel, materialised as concrete things and were embedded into everyday life through exhibitions and three-dimensional experiences in Japan during the cold war. In the historical and geopolitical context of Jap...
| Publicado en: | Asian Studies Review Vol. 49; no. 3; pp. 459 - 479 |
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Sep2025
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