Title Japan's colonization of Korea : discourse and power / Alexis Dudden

Published Honolulu : University of Hawai'i Press, [2005] ©2005

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Description x, 215 pages ; 24 cm Series The studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University. Contents 1. Illegal Korea -- 2. International terms of engagement -- 3. The vocabulary of power -- 4. Voices of dissent -- 5. Mission legislatrice -- Coda : a knowledgeable empire Summary "From its creation in the early twentieth-century, policymakers used the discourse of international law to legitimate Japan's empire. Although the Japanese state aggrandizers' reliance on this discourse did not create the imperial nation Japan would become, their fluent use of its terms inscribed Japan's claims as legal practice within Japan and abroad. Focusing on Japan's annexation of Korea in 1910, Alexis Dudden gives long-needed attention to the intellectual history of the empire and brings to light presumptions of the twentieth century's so-called international system by describing its most powerful - and most often overlooked - member's engagement with that system." "This landmark study greatly enhances our understanding of the intellectual underpinnings of Japan's imperial aspirations. Carefully researched and cogently argued, it makes clear that, even before Japan annexed Korea, it had embarked on a legal and often legislating mission to make its colonization legitimate in the eyes of the world. In so doing, Tokyo's early twentieth-century policy makers confirmed Japan's place in the international history of empire."--BOOK JACKET Notes Formerly CIP. Uk Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Subject Law -- Japan -- History. Law -- Korea -- History. SUBJECT Japan -- Foreign relations -- 1868-1912. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85069421 Korea -- Foreign relations -- 1864-1910. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85073024 Korea -- Foreign relations -- Japan. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008106341 Japan -- Foreign relations -- Korea. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008115636 Korea -- History -- Japanese occupation, 1910-1945. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85073038 Korea http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85073008 -- International status. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh00006353 Author Weatherhead East Asian Institute. LC no. 2004017575 ISBN 0824828291 (hardcover : alk. paper)

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