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Showing 1 to 15 of 15 for “"Japanese Empire"”.
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Japan's Asia-Pacific Migrations and the Making of the Japanese Empire, 1868-1945
This dissertation argues that the Japanese modern nation was formed not only from the inside but also from the outside, through nationalizing Japanese emigrants around the Pacific Rim. The study examines critical roles of Japanese overseas emigrants in shaping the ideologies and social movements in …
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Instability of Empire: Earthquake, Rumor, and the Massacre of Koreans in the Japanese Empire
… on collective violence in the culture of empire. In an attempt to explore the relationships that weave together disaster, rumors, massacre, and narrative-making in an empire, this project explores rumors, trial discourses, and commemoration as sites of analysis to create a window on the …
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The strong devour the weak : tracing the genocidal dynamics of violence in the Japanese Empire, 1937-1945
The Japanese Empire, like other empires, had a potential for extreme group-destructive violence. This potential was unleashed at times between 1937 and 1945 as the Japanese military, engaged in wars fought, ostensibly, for the liberation and reconstruction of an ‘Asia for the Asiatics’, embraced …
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Script, Empire, and Business: A Global History of Japanese Script Reform, 1920-1945
This dissertation studies Japanese script reform in the early twentieth century from economic and global historical perspectives and sheds new light on the history of the relationships among script, business, and the Japanese empire. Specifically, it examines the campaigns of the Kanamoji …
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Crafting Citizens Beyond Borders: Japanese Education on the Frontier of Japan’s Empire in the Americas
To be nikkei means to be of Japanese descent living abroad. The goal of my dissertation is to investigate how the 1930s Japanese Empire interacted with overseas Japanese communities and developed nikkei citizenship across the Pacific. Japanese education codified a set of civic and moral …
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Šintoistinės maldyklos už Japonijos įtakos ribų imperijos ekspansionizmo laikotarpiu /
… shrines within and beyond the borders of the Empire of Japan, particularly in the context of the political and territorial expansion of the Japanese empire at the turn of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The thesis is divided into three chapters. The first chapter provides the …
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Disentangling Colonial Migration: Koreans to the Metropole, 1910-1945
… between the periphery and metropole of the Japanese empire. Because Korean residents in the labouring class occupied the largest population of foreigners in imperial Japan since the latter years of World War I, much attention has been given to Korean labourers in existing scholarship. While …
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Yellow over black: the precolonial and colonial history of race in Korea, 1883-1945
… were susceptible to foreign rule in the age of empire, as well as drawing on the insights of W.E.B. Du Bois, this dissertation thereby reveals how Koreans rendered Blacks and American Indians peoples without history, along with the subsequent relation to racial slavery and its afterlife. Second, …
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Japonų kolonijinio švietimo įtaka Taivano etninėms grupėms /
… of the bachelor's thesis is the reforms of Japanese colonial education in Taiwan and their influence on the ethnic groups of the island. The primary goal of the work is to find out what changes in the education system were made during the period of Japanese colonization in Taiwan and to …
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ID Troubles: The National Identification Systems in Japan and the (mis) Construction of the Subject
… and loyalty to construct subjects for the Japanese Empire and reify a fictional unity among the “Japanese” people. Until today, this disciplinary element has functioned as the norm for organizational relations in Japan. The Alien Registration System requires non-citizens to register and …
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Historical regimes of socio-natures in farmlands: practices of conventional farming in Fukuoka, Japan
… developed, especially since the end of the Japanese empire in the mid-20th century. By conducting ethnographic and archival research about conventional farmers in Itoshima city, Fukuoka, Japan, I analyze a variety of practices, such as handling “harmful bugs” in rice paddies (including use …
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Disconsolate Subjects: Figures of Radical Alterity in the Twentieth Century Novel, From Modernism to Postcolonialism
… projects as the Irish Free State, the Japanese Empire, or apartheid South Africa - projects that emerged in opposition to a regnant world-system and saw themselves in utopian or liberatory terms. Yet these fictions are unable to affirm more than provisional or imaginary alternatives. A …
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Salient professionals, a silent profession: the rise, prominence, and marginalization of lawyers in Korea under Japan’s rule 1906-1945
… as powerful professionals during the period of Japanese colonialism in Korea (1906-1945) even as the legal profession, as a whole, remained relatively disempowered. After the registration of the first three Korean lawyers as litigation experts in 1906, lawyers became prestigious ones in local …
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Modern Japanese Buddhism in the Context of Interreligious Dialogue, Nationalism and World War II
… critical and historical examination of modern Japanese Buddhism in terms of its collaboration with and resistance to ultranationalism and militarism before and during World War II. It also examines how Buddhism came to Japan and transformed itself according to the historical, social and …
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Creating the Leader-centred Modernity: the birth of the successor in North Korea
… one bearing the educational legacy of the Japanese Empire, carved out a pioneering space for a successor, in a manner quite unlike their Soviet and Chinese counterparts. This diverges from the previous treatment of the North Korean leadership succession as simply a return to a dynastic …