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摘要

I thank Professor Togo Tsukahara for pointing out the typos of Japanese terms in my book Technology of Empire: Telecommunications and Japanese Expansion in Asia, 1883-1945, reviewed in Technology and Culture 53 (2012): 461-64. However, I am perplexed by his characterization of the book as a "history of telecommunications in Japan," and by his dismissive remark that the book's content is already familiar to historians of technology in Japan and China. My first two background chapters acknowledge the few recent studies that examine the early history of Japanese telecommunications network and its exDansion into neighboring Asian countries.