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Record Nr.

UNINA9910254790203321

Titolo

Transnational Japan as History : Empire, Migration, and Social Movements / / edited by Pedro Iacobelli, Danton Leary, Shinnosuke Takahashi

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : Palgrave Macmillan US : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2016

ISBN

1-137-56879-8

Edizione

[1st ed. 2016.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (283 p.)

Collana

Palgrave Macmillan Transnational History Series, , 2634-6273

Classificazione

HIS021000HIS049000HIS054000

Disciplina

952

Soggetti

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

Japan History 20th century Historiography

Japan Foreign relations 20th century

Japan Foreign relations Asia

Asia Foreign relations Japan

Japan Emigration and immigration History 20th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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.

Sommario/riassunto

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.