Transnational Japan as History: Empire, Migration, and Social Movements

by Pedro Iacobelli (Editor), Danton Leary (Editor), Shinnosuke Takahashi (Editor)

Overview

This volume looks at the history of Japan from a transnational perspective. It brings to the fore the interconnectedness of Japan's history with the wider Asian-Pacific region and the world. This interconnectedness is examined in the volume through the themes of empire, migration, and social movements.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781137568779
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan US
Publication date:	11/09/2015
Series:	Palgrave Macmillan Transnational History Series
Edition description:	1st ed. 2015
Pages:	275
Product dimensions:	5.51(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.03(d)

About the Author

Bill Mihalopoulos, Associate Lecturer in History, Alfred Deakin Research Institute at Deakin University, Australia Hiroe Saruya, Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology, Sophia University, Japan Yuka Hiruma Kishida, Assistant Professor of History, Bridgewater College, USA Ian Rapley, Postdoctoral Teaching Associate, Nissan Institute of Japanese Studies, University of Oxford, England Kelly Dietz, Assistant Professor in the Department of Politics, Ithaca College, USA Noriaki Hoshino, Visiting Assistant Professor, Dickison College, USA Sherzod Muminov, Doctoral Candidate, University of Cambridge, England Shinnosuke Takahashi, Doctoral Candidate, Australian National University, Australia Tessa Morris-Suzuki, Professor of Japanese History in the Division of Pacific and Asian History, College of Asia and the Pacific, Australian National University, Australia Toyomi Asano, Professor in History, Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan

Table of Contents

Introduction: Framing Japan´s Historiography into the Transnational Approach
1. Regionalism or Imperialism: Japan's Options towards Protected Korea after the Russo-Japanese War, 1905-1910
2. Pan-Asianism in the Wartime Writings of Japanese, Chinese and Korean Intellectuals in a Transnational Space at Kenkoku University in Japanese-Occupied Manchuria
3. The 'Siberian Internment' and the Transnational History of the Early Cold War Japan, 1945–56
4. Colonialism and Migration: From the Landscapes of Toyohara
5. Migrations and the Formation of a Diverse Japanese Nation during the First Half of the Twentieth Century
6. Japanese Migration to Colonial Singapore, 1890-1920: the collision and collusion of statehood and gender
7. A Language for Asia? Transnational Encounters in the Japanese Esperanto Movement, 1906-1928
8. Imagining 'World Peace': The Anti-Nuclear Bomb Movement in Postwar Japan as a Transnational Movement
9. Transnationalism and Transition in the Ryukyus

Editorial Reviews

All of the chapters contribute to a dynamic picture of modern Japan as a maritime empire and part of a globalizing world. Some may be of greater interest to specialists in Japanese history than others, but all are informative and readily approachable for the general reader. As a whole, Transnational Japan as History provides an excellent snapshot of the most innovative research being done today in this exciting new field.” (Jordan Sand, The International Journal of Maritime History, Vol. 28 (4), 2016)

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