Kenkoku University and the Experience of Pan-Asianism
Subtitle: Education in the Japanese Empire
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Published: 2019
Language: eng
Number of pages: 288
ISBN-13: 9781350057852
Subjects: Universities and colleges, china; Regionalism; Education, japan
Description: "Kenkoku University and the Experience of Pan-Asianism makes a fresh contribution to the recent effort to re-examine the Japanese wartime ideology of Pan-Asianism by focusing on the experiences of students at Kenkoku University or "Nation-Building University," abbreviated as Kendai (1938-1945). Located in the northeastern provinces of China commonly designated Manchuria, the university proclaimed to realize the goal of minzoku kyowa ("ethnic harmony"). It recruited students of Japanese, Chinese, Korean, Taiwanese, Mongolian and Russian backgrounds and aimed to foster a generation of leaders for the state of Manchukuo. Distinguishing itself from other colonial schools within the Japanese Empire, Kendai promised ethnic equality to its diverse student body, while at the same time imposing Japanese customs and beliefs on all students."