| Description |
1 online resource (xv, 285 pages) : illustrations (some color) |
| Series |
New directions in East Asian history |
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New directions in East Asian history.
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| Contents |
Introduction: The imperial paperchase -- Laws and transgressions. Legislating global mobility in Japan : opening the Pacific, treaty ports, and Asian exclusion -- Start of Japanese rule in Taiwan and the construction of travel certificates -- Imperial Japan and the passport conference in the 1920s -- Ideas and resistance. "... polished and cultured, speaking English fluently" the first Japanese doctor of Broome -- Cross-imperial critique of border control : Japanese socialists' responses to the US Immigration Act of 1924 -- The paper and the body. Biometric technologies and mobilities : controlling workers and citizens in Manchukuo -- The collapse of the Japanese empire and the institutionalization of personal ID cards -- Documenting the Siberian odyssey of Japanese former servicemen and civilians, 1945-1956 |
| Summary |
This book tackles the question of border control in and around imperial Japan in the first half of the twentieth century, with a specific focus on its documentation regime. It explores the institutional development, media and literary discourses, and on[1]the-ground practices of documentary identification in the Japanese empire and the places visited by its subjects. The contributing authors, covering such regions as Korea, Manchuria, Taiwan, Siberia, Australia, and the United States, place the question of individual identity in the eyes of the respective governments in dialogue with the global developments of the identification and mobility control practices. The chapters suggest the importance of focusing more than previously on the narrative of individual identification, not as a tool for creating nation states but as a tool for generating, strengthening, and maintaining asymmetrical relationships between people of different socioeconomic backgrounds who moved in and out of empires. This book joins the effort in the recent scholarship in migration history to highlight experiences of migrants beyond the transatlantic world, and that in East Asian history to investigate the space and connections beyond the boundaries of the nation states. By bringing together the analyses on the trans-Pacific mobility and Japans imperial expansion and its aftermath in East Asia, it shows a complex interplay between state power and moving individuals, two forces whose relationships went far beyond simple competition. Takahiro Yamamoto is Assistant Professor of Cultural Economic History at Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg, Germany. His focus is on the history of modern Japan, especially with regard to its borders, cross-border connections, and human mobility. Prior to coming to Heidelberg, Germany, he was a Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) Research Fellow (2016-2017), affiliated with the Graduate Schools of Law and Politics at the University of Tokyo. He has also served as a Global Perspectives on Society Teaching Fellow at New York University Shanghai. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from PDF title page (SpringerLink, viewed November 18, 2022) |
| Subject |
Imperialism -- History -- 20th century
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Emigration and immigration
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Imperialism
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| SUBJECT |
Japan -- History -- 20th century. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85069498
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Japan -- Emigration and immigration -- History -- 20th century
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| Subject |
Japan
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books
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History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Yamamoto, Takahiro (Writer on Japanese history), editor.
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| ISBN |
9789811663918 |
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9811663912 |
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