These essays, by thirteen specialists from Japan and the United States, provide a comprehensive view of the Japanese empire from its establishment in 1895 to its liquidation in 1945. They offer a variety of perspectives on subjects previously neglected by historians: the origin and evolution of the formal empire (which comprised Taiwan, Korea, Karafuto. the Kwantung Leased Territory, and the South Seas Mandated Islands), the institutions and policies by which it was governed, and the economic dynamics that impelled it. Seeking neither to justify the empire nor to condemn it, the contributors place it in the framework of Japanese history and in the context of colonialism as a global phenomenon. Contributors are Ching-chih Chen. Edward I-te Chen, Bruce Cumings, Peter Duus, Lewis H. Gann, Samuel Pao-San Ho, Marius B. Jansen, Mizoguchi Toshiyuki, Ramon H. Myers, Mark R. Peattie, Michael E. Robinson, E. Patricia Tsurumi. Yamada Saburō, Yamamoto Yūzoō.
Author(s): Ramon H. Myers, Mark R. Peattie
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Year: 1987
Language: English
Pages: 558
City: Princeton
Table of Contents
Preface
Introduction
Part I The Origins and Meaning of Japan's Colonial Empire
1 Japanese Imperialism: Late Meiji Perspectives
2 Japanese Attitudes Toward Colonialism, 1895-1945
3 Economic Dimensions of Meiji Imperialism: The Case of Korea, 1895-1910
4 The Nan'yo: Japan in the South Pacific, 1885-1945
Part II Management of the Empire
5 Police and Community Control Systems in the Empire
6 The Attempt To Integrate the Empire: Legal Perspectives
7 Colonial Education in Korea and Taiwan
8 Colonial Publication Policy and the Korean Nationalist Movement
Part III The Economic Dynamics of the Empire
9 Colonialism and Development: Korea, Taiwan, and Kwantung
10 Capital Formation in Taiwan and Korea
11 Agricultural Development in the Empire
Part IV The Japanese Empire in Historical and Global Perspective
12 Post World War II Japanese Historiography of Japan's Formal Colonial Empire
13 The Legacy of Japanese Colonialism in Korea
14 Western and Japanese Colonialism: Some Preliminary Comparisons
List of Contributors
Index
