Session9 "COFFEE"
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The reading for today's session touches on a wide range of places ― from Cairo to Zagreb to Hamburg to Mexico. And it covers a wide variety of topics ― from soccer to coffee to exchange rates to internet cafes.
Holding all of this together is the underlying theme of global flow and exchange. Professor Usui's round-the-world essay certainly raises some important questions about the globalization of agricultural commodities. But as this essay suggests, agricultural globalization is not only limited to actual products like coffee. The global circulation of products is closely tied to the global circulation of people, of technology, and of knowledge.
Holding all of this together is the underlying theme of global flow and exchange. Professor Usui's round-the-world essay certainly raises some important questions about the globalization of agricultural commodities. But as this essay suggests, agricultural globalization is not only limited to actual products like coffee. The global circulation of products is closely tied to the global circulation of people, of technology, and of knowledge.
Some of you may have noticed a small rice paddy near the Komaba Todaimae Station, right next to the Komabano Park. It's owned by a nearby high school ― so some of you may even have planted and harvested rice there. Students from the high school have the chance to get some hands-on experience in rice farming right in the middle of Tokyo. This field is called the Kellner rice paddy.
In today's reading, Professor Usui recalls how he once visited a cafe in Zagreb named after a famous German politician. Here in Meguro, we can walk across the train tracks and visit a rice paddy named after a famous German teacher.
Oskar Kellner arrived in Japan in 1881, in response to an invitation he had received from the Japanese government. He'd been asked to come to Tokyo to teach the latest theories in practical methods of modern agriculture at a newly established college in Komaba. Perhaps you've heard of Sapporo Agricultural College, where the famous Professor William S. Clark taught for one year. Komaba agricultural College also played a crucial role in the development of agricultural science in Japan. It's the ancestor of the University of Tokyo's present Department of Agriculture.
In today's reading, Professor Usui recalls how he once visited a cafe in Zagreb named after a famous German politician. Here in Meguro, we can walk across the train tracks and visit a rice paddy named after a famous German teacher.
Oskar Kellner arrived in Japan in 1881, in response to an invitation he had received from the Japanese government. He'd been asked to come to Tokyo to teach the latest theories in practical methods of modern agriculture at a newly established college in Komaba. Perhaps you've heard of Sapporo Agricultural College, where the famous Professor William S. Clark taught for one year. Komaba agricultural College also played a crucial role in the development of agricultural science in Japan. It's the ancestor of the University of Tokyo's present Department of Agriculture.
As a professor of agricultural chemistry at Komaba ― teaching in English! ― Oskar Kellner taught many promising students. Some of his students went on to become influential bureaucrats and scholars. They played an important role in setting the course of Japanese agricultural policy and science, in the twentieth-century. Kellner taught subjects that were not widely known at the time in Japan such as plant nutrition, livestock nutrition, plant physiology, and climatology. At the time, these subjects were regarded as cutting-edge science. It was taken for granted that mastery of these topics was essential for the development of profitable agriculture and therefore for the establishment of a strong nation-state. Kellner believed that the latest scientific knowledge should be applied even to rice growing, which of course already had a long tradition in Japan ― although not in his native Germany. During the course of his eleven-year career at Komaba, Kellner performed various experiments to determine the best water quality and fertilizer for growing rice. The results of his work here on this campus made a significant contribution to the development of rice growing in Japan.
The Kellner rice paddy at Komaba is not only a direct legacy of his dedication to science and to his students. It also attests to the complexity and to the creative potential of the global circulation of knowledge, technology, products ― and people.
The Kellner rice paddy at Komaba is not only a direct legacy of his dedication to science and to his students. It also attests to the complexity and to the creative potential of the global circulation of knowledge, technology, products ― and people.
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