Nation-Empire (eBook)

Ideology and Rural Youth Mobilization in Japan and Its Colonies

Sayaka Chatani (Autor)

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2018
366 Seiten
Cornell University Press (Verlag)
978-1-5017-3077-1 (ISBN)

Infos

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.

Autor

Sayaka Chatani is Assistant Professor in the Department of History at the National University of Singapore.

Inhalt

List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Note on Transliteration and Translation
Introduction: Nation-Empire as Global and Local History
Part 1: THE SO-CALLED INNER TERRITORIES
1. National Trends
2. From Mobilization to the Social Mobility Complex
3. Totalitarian Japanization
Interlude: Okinawa's Place in the Nation-Empire
Part 2: 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
Part 3: CONSEQUENCES
9. As Young Pillars of the Nation-Empire
Epilogue: Back in Villages
Notes
On the Archives and Sources

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 15.12.2018
• Reihe/Serie: Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University
• Reihe/Serie: Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University
• Zusatzinfo: 10 b&w halftones, 3 b&w line drawings, 4 maps
• Verlagsort: Ithaca
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 150 x 150 mm
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Freizeit / Hobby ► Sammeln / Sammlerkataloge
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► 1918 bis 1945
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Militärgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
• Schlagworte: Japanese Empire, youth mobilization, nationalism, World War II, WWII, Second World War, rural society, Hitlerjugend, Hitler youth, Boy Scouts, Korea, Taiwan, Japan, modern empires, fascist regimes, East Asian International relations
• ISBN-10: 1-5017-3077-0 / 1501730770
• ISBN-13: 978-1-5017-3077-1 / 9781501730771