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

283 Pages·2016·1.768 MB·English

by  Pedro Iacobelli, Danton Leary, Shinnosuke Takahashi (eds.)

PALGRAVE MACMILLAN TRANSNATIONAL HISTORY SERIES
Akira Iriye (Harvard University) and Rana Mitter (University of Oxford)
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This distinguished series seeks to develop scholarship on the transnational connections
of societies and peoples in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries; provide a forum in
which work on transnational history from different periods, subjects, and regions of
the world can be brought together in fruitful connection; and explore the theoretical
and methodological links between transnational and other related approaches such as
comparative history and world history.
Editorial board: Thomas Bender , University Professor of the Humanities, Professor
of History, and Director of the International Center for Advanced Studies, New York
University Jane Carruthers , Professor of History, University of South Africa Mariano
Plotkin , Professor, Universidad Nacional de Tres de Febrero, Buenos Aires, and member
of the National Council of Scientific and Technological Research, Argentina P ierre-Yves
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Tyrrell , Professor of History, University of New South Wales
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THE NATION, PSYCHOLOGY, AND INTERNATIONAL POLITICS, 1870–1919
By Glenda Sluga
COMPETING VISIONS OF WORLD ORDER: GLOBAL MOMENTS AND MOVEMENTS,
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Edited by Sebastian Conrad and Dominic Sachsenmaier
PAN-ASIANISM AND JAPAN’S WAR, 1931–1945
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CHINESE IN BRITAIN, 1800–PRESENT: ECONOMY, TRANSNATIONALISM, IDENTITY
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AND POSTWAR RECONCILIATION BETWEEN NATIONS
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THE IDEA OF HUMANITY IN A GLOBAL ERA
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NEW PERSPECTIVES ON THE TRANSNATIONAL RIGHT
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TELEGRAPHIC IMPERIALISM: CRISIS AND PANIC IN THE INDIAN EMPIRE,
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SCIENCE, GENDER, AND INTERNATIONALISM: WOMEN’S ACADEMIC NETWORKS,
1917–1955
By Christine von Oertzen; Translated by Kate Sturge
TRANSNATIONAL JAPAN AS HISTORY: EMPIRE, MIGRATION, AND
SOCIAL MOVEMENTS
Edited by Pedro Iacobelli, Danton Leary, and Shinnosuke Takahashi
Transnational Japan
as History
Empire, Migration, and Social
Movements
Edited by
Pedro Iacobelli , Danton Leary , and
Shinnosuke Takahashi
TRANSNATIONAL JAPAN AS HISTORY
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Contents
List of Figures i x
Series Editors’ Foreword x i
Acknowledgments xiii
Introduction: Framing Japan ´ s Historiography into
the Transnational Approach 1
Pedro Iacobelli, Danton Leary, and Shinnosuke Takahashi
1 Regionalism or Imperialism: Japan’s Options toward
a Protected Korea after the Russo-Japanese War,
1905–10 21
Toyomi Asano
2 Pan-Asianism in the Wartime Writings of Japanese,
Chinese, and Korean Intellectuals in a Transnational
Space at Kenkoku University in Japanese-Occupied
Manchuria 47
Yuka Hiruma Kishida
3 The “Siberian Internment” and the Transnational
History of the Early Cold War Japan, 1945–56 71
Sherzod Muminov
4 Colonialism and Migration: From the Landscapes
of Toyohara 9 7
Tessa Morris-Suzuki
5 Migrations and the Formation of a Diverse Japanese
Nation during the First Half of the Twentieth Century 121
Noriaki Hoshino
6 Statehood, Gender, and Japanese Migration
to Singapore, 1890–1920 145
Bill Mihalopoulos
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viii Contents
7 A Language for Asia? Transnational Encounters in
the Japanese Esperanto Movement, 1906–28 1 67
Ian Rapley
8 Imagining “World Peace”: The Antinuclear Bomb
Movement in Postwar Japan as a Transnational
Movement 187
Hiroe Saruya
9 Transnationalism and Transition in the Ryū ky ū s 211
Kelly Dietz
Bibliography 2 43
Notes on Contributors 265
Index 2 67
Figures
9.1 M ap of US military bases on Okinawa Island 214
9.2 2 006 design for an air base and naval port at
Cape Henoko 216
9.3 U S Navy’s 1966 design for an air base and naval
port at Cape Henoko 217
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Series Editors’ Foreword
If there persists any doubt that transnational history is an excel-
lent way of studying the recent past, the chapters in this volume
will dispel such skepticism. They make clear that the transnational
approach to history is a particularly valuable tool when examining
a country such as Japan whose territorial borders are presumably
well defined and where both its state and society tend to embrace
one kind of mon-nationalism or another. Editors and contributors
demonstrate that Japan has been a transnational nation like all
countries.
A transnational analysis of a country’s history pays particular
attention to the ways in which its people intermingle with one
another both domestically and externally. Within the nation, the
Japanese are no more “homogeneous” than anyone else, if indeed
there has ever existed a “homogeneous” society anywhere in the
world. The Japanese people have been intermingling with people
and cultures of other societies for centuries, and yet Japanese his-
tory continues to be viewed as Japan’s story, well defined in its bor-
ders and developing with its own momentum. When it interacts
with other countries, these, too, tend to be comprehended within
the framework of their respective national identities.
Trasnational history has developed as a way to overcome such
parochialism and to provide a fresh way of looking at the world’s past
and present. It is assumed that no nation is detached from worldwide
developments and that besides nations and states there exist many
nonnational and nongovernmental entities that constitute human-
ity: ethnicities, races, religions, and other communities as well as
individual men, women, children, and many others. Humanity is
divisible not only into national communities but also into such other
groupings as rich and poor, men and women, young and old, edu-
cated and uneducated, healthy and sick, and many other categories.
They all constitute the global community. To study Japan, therefore,
is to understand the world, and vice versa. It is to be hoped that
the contributors’ efforts in this book to “transnationalize” Japanese
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