Transnational Japan as History [electronic resource] : Empire, Migration, and Social Movements /
Iacobelli, Pedro.editor.
Leary, Danton.editor.
Takahashi, Shinnosuke.editor.
This volume looks at the history of Japan from a transnational perspective. It brings to the fore the interconnectedness of Japan's history with the wider Asian-Pacific region and the world. This interconnectedness is examined in the volume through the themes of empire, migration, and social movements.
Description based upon print version of record.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Machine generated contents note: -- Introduction: Framing Japan's Historiography into the Transnational Approach -- 1. Regionalism or Imperialism: Japan's Options towards Protected Korea after the Russo-Japanese War, 1905-1910 -- 2. Pan-Asianism in the Wartime Writings of Japanese, Chinese and Korean Intellectuals in a Transnational Space at Kenkoku University in Japanese-Occupied Manchuria -- 3. The 'Siberian Internment' and the Transnational History of the Early Cold War Japan, 1945-56 -- 4. Colonialism and Migration: From the Landscapes of Toyohara -- 5. Migrations and the Formation of a Diverse Japanese Nation during the First Half of the Twentieth Century -- 6. Japanese Migration to Colonial Singapore, 1890-1920: the collision and collusion of statehood and gender -- 7. A Language for Asia? Transnational Encounters in the Japanese Esperanto Movement, 1906-1928 -- 8. Imagining 'World Peace': The Anti-Nuclear Bomb Movement in Postwar Japan as a Transnational Movement -- 9. Transnationalism and Transition in the Ryukyus.
This volume looks at the history of Japan from a transnational perspective. It brings to the fore the interconnectedness of Japan's history with the wider Asian-Pacific region and the world. This interconnectedness is examined in the volume through the themes of empire, migration, and social movements.
Asia-History.
World history.
Imperialism.
Social history.
Japan-History.
Asian History.
World History, Global and Transnational History.
Imperialism and Colonialism.
Social History.
History of Japan.