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The added historical depth is really interesting, Yutaka. Thanks a lot mike On Sun, Jul 12, 2009 at 3:49 PM, Yutaka Sayeki <ysayeki@si.aoyama.ac.jp>wrote: > Dear Mike; > > The below is an another answer from a science teacher, Arifumi Yoshioka, a > graduate student of mine, on "Rika" and "Kagaku." > > The original meaning of "Kagaku" is used to be a collective of various > academic studies, but now it is rather common to mean the natural science in > Japan. > But there has been a strong assertion that the human science and the social > sience should also be included in the science in general (especially from > students of > humanities and social scientists to get more govermental aids to their > fields, to redress an enormous difference existing between "sience aids" and > "the other") . > "Rika" originally meant the opposite word of the humanities in Japan. > "Kagaku" and "Rika" were not so different in details, in the MEIJI era: The > both meant natural science. > But when the national school system was introduced in Japan, "Rika" became > the name of a school subject, as Naomi indicated in the previous mail. > It has often been said that "Rika" meant the learning of the "love of > nature", but nowadays not many people say so. Rather, it seems to be more > common to say that "Kagaku" is "doing scientific activities" especially, > while "Rika" , as a subject's name, is "learning scientific knowledge" > (not necessarily by doing scientific activities-that IS a problem). > > Sincerely, > > Yutaka Sayeki, > Department of Social Informatics > Aoyamagakuin University. > > _______________________________________________ xmca mailing list xmca@weber.ucsd.edu http://dss.ucsd.edu/mailman/listinfo/xmca