Nation-Empire

Sayaka Chatani

Description

By the end of World War II, hundreds of thousands of young men in the Japanese colonies, in particular Taiwan and Korea, had expressed their loyalty to the empire by volunteering to join the army. Why and how did so many colonial youth become passionate supporters of Japanese imperial nationalism? And what happened to these youth after the war? Nation-Empire investigates these questions by examining the long-term mobilization of youth in the rural peripheries of Japan, Taiwan, and Korea. Personal stories and village histories vividly show youth's ambitions, emotions, and identities generated in the shifting conditions in each locality. At the same time, Sayaka Chatani unveils an intense ideological mobilization built from diverse contexts-the global rise of youth and agrarian ideals, Japan's strong drive for assimilation and nationalization, and the complex emotions of younger generations in various remote villages.Nation-Empire engages with multiple historical debates. Chatani considers metropole-colony linkages, revealing the core characteristics of the Japanese Empire; discusses youth mobilization, analyzing the Japanese seinendan (village youth associations) as equivalent to the Boy Scouts or the Hitler Youth; and examines society and individual subjectivities under totalitarian rule. Her book highlights the shifting state-society transactions of the twentieth-century world through the lens of the Japanese Empire, inviting readers to contend with a new approach to, and a bold vision of, empire study.

Sujets

• Histoire
• 20th century
• World War II
• History of Asia
• Japan

Informations

• Publié par: Cornell University Press
• Date de parution: 15 décembre 2018
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781501730764
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 3 Mo

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NATIONEMPIRE

StudiesoftheWeatherheadEastAsianInstitute,ColumbiaUniversity

TheStudiesoftheWeatherheadEastAsianInstituteofColumbiaUniversitywereinaugu rated in 1962 to bring to a wider public the results of significant new research on modern and contemporary East Asia.

NATIONEMPIRE IdeologyandRuralYouth Mobilization in Japan and Its Colonies

CORNELLUNIVERSITYPRESS

SayakaChatani

ITHACA AND LONDON

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First published 2018 by Cornell University Press

Printed in the United States of America

Library of Congress CataloginginPublication Data Names: Chatani, Sayaka, author. Title: Nationempire : ideology and rural youth mobilization  in Japan and its colonies / Sayaka Chatani. Description: Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2018. | Series: Studies of the  Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University | Includes  bibliographical references and index. Identifiers: LCCN 2018011988 (print) | LCCN 2018015970 (ebook) |  ISBN 9781501730764 (pdf) | ISBN 9781501730771 (epub/mobi) |  ISBN 9781501730757 | ISBN 9781501730757 (cloth: alk. paper) Subjects: LCSH: Rural youth—Political activity—Japan—History—  20th century. | Rural youth—Political activity—Taiwan—History—  20th century. | Rural youth—Political activity—Korea (South)—  History—20th century. | Young men—Political activity—Japan—  History—20th century. | Young men—Political activity—Taiwan—  History—20th century. | Young men—Political activity—Korea (South)—  History—20th century. | Nationalism—Japan—History—20th century. |  Nationalism—Taiwan—History—20th century. | Nationalism—Korea  (South)—History—20th century. | Japan—Colonies—History—20th century. Classification: LCC HQ799.8.J3 (ebook) | LCC HQ799.8.J3 C45 2018 (print) |  DDC 305.253/091734—dc23 LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2018011988

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Contents

ListofIllustrations Acknowledgments NoteonTransliterationandTranslation

Introduction:NationEmpireasGlobalandLocalHistory

Par t 1SOCALLED INNER TERRITORIES THE 1.  National Trends 2. From Mobilization to the Social Mobility Complex 3. Totalitarian Japanization

Interlude:Okinawa’sPlaceintheNationEmpire

2Par t  THE SOCALLED OUTER TERRITORIES 4. Colonial Intellectuals 5.  Finding Rural Youth in Taiwan 6.  The Emotional Basis for Japanization 7.  Model Rural Youth in Korean Villages 8.  Opportunities and Loopholes

3Par t  CONSEQUENCES 9.  As Young Pillars of the NationEmpire Epilogue:BackinVillages

Notes OntheArchivesandSources Index

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Maps  1. TeespiEmJheanapd91eimnhteri30s  2.  The location of Shida village  3. The locations of Xinzhu city and Beipu village  4.  The locations of Kwangsŏk village, Nonsan town, and Kangyŏng town

Figures  2.1.  The inauguration of Miyagi Prefecture Seinendan Federation  2.2.  Rural youth training institutional setup in Miyagi in the late 1920s  6.1–6.4.  Activities at the Xinzhu Province Youth Training  Institute (Shinchikushūritsu Seinen Shūrenjō)  6.5.  Xu Chongfa (Nemoto Kenji) at age nineteen  6.6–6.7.  The Taiwan Patriotic Labor Youth Corps  (Taiwan KingyōHōkoku Seinentai) in Hualian,  September 30, 1941  6.8.  Rural youth training institutional setup in Xinzhu in the late 1930s  8.1.  Kim Yŏnghan at seinendan training in Kapsa, August 5, 1938  8.2.  Kim Yŏnghan at seinendan training in Kapsa, August 5, 1938  8.3.  Rural youth training institutional setup in Nonsan in the midtolate 1930s

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