In search of our frontier : Japanese America and settler colonialism in the construction of Japan's borderless empire /
Azuma, Eiichiro,author.
"In Search of Our Frontier explores the complex transpacific history of Japanese settler colonialism, which linked Japanese America with imperial Japan through the exchange of migrant bodies, expansionist knowledge, colonial capital, and developmental technology in the Asia-Pacific basin. By focusing on residents of and remigrants from Japanese America as a vital link between migration-led expansionism within and outside of Japan's formal empire, this book offers new interpretive frames and perspectives that will allow us to understand the capacity of Japanese settler colonialism to operate outside the aegis of the home empire--or under the sovereign domination of another empire--for the shared goal of 'overseas racial development' and the construction of a 'Japanese Pacific' vis-à-vis a US-led 'white Pacific'"--Provided by publisher.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction : transpacific Japanese migration, white American racism, and Japan's adaptive settler colonialism -- Immigrant frontiersmen in America and the origins of Japanese settler colonialism -- Vanguard of an expansive Japan : knowledge-producers, frontier-trotters, and settlement-builders from across the Pacific -- Transpacific migrants and the blurring boundaries of state and private settler colonialism -- U.S. immigration exclusion, Japanese America, and its trans-migrants in Japan's Brazilian frontiers -- Japanese California and its colonial diaspora : Manchuria connections -- Japanese Hawai'i and its tropical nexus : remigration to colonial Taiwan and the Nan'yō -- Japanese pioneers in America and the making of expansionist orthodoxy in Imperial Japan -- The call of blood : Japanese American citizens and the education of the empire's future "frontier fighters" -- Epilogue : the afterlife of Japanese settler colonialism -- Glossary of Japanese names.
"In Search of Our Frontier explores the complex transpacific history of Japanese settler colonialism, which linked Japanese America with imperial Japan through the exchange of migrant bodies, expansionist knowledge, colonial capital, and developmental technology in the Asia-Pacific basin. By focusing on residents of and remigrants from Japanese America as a vital link between migration-led expansionism within and outside of Japan's formal empire, this book offers new interpretive frames and perspectives that will allow us to understand the capacity of Japanese settler colonialism to operate outside the aegis of the home empire--or under the sovereign domination of another empire--for the shared goal of 'overseas racial development' and the construction of a 'Japanese Pacific' vis-à-vis a US-led 'white Pacific'"--Provided by publisher.
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