戦前期沖縄とインドネシア―又吉武俊の「南方関与」を事例に―

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  • Prewar Okinawa and Indonesia: The Case of Matayoshi Taketoshi’s “Involvement in Southeast Asia”
  • センゼンキ オキナワ ト インドネシア : マタ ヨシタケシュン ノ 「 ナンポウ カンヨ 」 オ ジレイ ニ

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<p>Prewar Okinawa was known as an “emigrant prefecture,” with its three major immigration destinations being the Americas, including North America, South America and Hawaii, Micronesia, and the American-ruled Philippines. World War I generated additional “southward advance” fever, increasing the number of emigrants from Okinawa to other parts of insular Southeast Asia. The paper will first examine the demographics of emigration from Okinawa to Southeast Asia, then examine the process of formation of Japanese society in Indonesia (The Dutch East Indies), along with the Dutch authority’s strategic policies towards Japan as an example.</p><p>Having this grounded background, the major theme of this paper is to try to reconstruct the fragmented reality of Okinawa’s “involvement in Southeast Asia” through a portrayal of the life of Matayoshi Taketoshi (1881–1943), a pioneering prewar emigrant from Okinawa to Indonesia. A resident of Agunijima, a remote, impoverished island of the Okinawan archipelago, Matayoshi Taketoshi went to Malang, East Java, in the beginning of the 1910s. In Java, Matayoshi owned various businesses including a barbershop, a salon, and a small coffee plantation thanks to his diligent work in extremely difficult circumstances. As a result, he was one of the Okinawans who enjoyed substantial prestige in Japanese society in Indonesia. However, facing the impending “Great East Asian War,” Matayoshi, against his will, was forced to abandon the economic basis of his life in Java, which he had developed with the assistance of 30 relatives from his hometown who he invited to join him.</p><p>The crossing of Okinawan migration studies and concrete studies on the Japanese community in prewar Indonesia, in this case the life history of Matayoshi, an unknown Okinawan man’s “involvement in Souteast Asia,” reveal previously unknown characteristics of the prewar Okinawa-Indonesian relationship, and contribute to a more complex understanding of Japan-Southeast Asia relations in the pre-war era.</p>

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  • アジア太平洋討究

    アジア太平洋討究 33 (0), 43-75, 2018-03-20

    早稲田大学アジア太平洋研究センター

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