In search of our frontier : Japanese America and settler colonialism in the construction of Japan's borderless empire

Author(s)

• Azuma, Eiichiro

Bibliographic Information

In search of our frontier : Japanese America and settler colonialism in the construction of Japan's borderless empire

Eiichiro Azuma

（Asia Pacific modern / Takashi Fujitani, series editor, 17）

University of California Press, c2019

• : cloth

Note

Includes bibliographical references and index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

In Search of Our Frontier explores the complex transnational history of Japanese immigrant settler colonialism, which linked Japanese America with Japan's colonial empire through the exchange of migrant bodies, expansionist ideas, colonial expertise, and capital in the Asia-Pacific basin before World War II. The trajectories of Japanese transpacific migrants exemplified a prevalent national structure of thought and practice that not only functioned to shore up the backbone of Japan's empire building but also promoted the borderless quest for Japanese overseas development. Eiichiro Azuma offers new interpretive perspectives that will allow readers to understand Japanese settler colonialism's capacity to operate outside the aegis of the home empire.

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations Preface and Acknowledgments Introduction: Transpacific Japanese Migration, White American Racism, and Japan's Adaptive Settler Colonialism PART ONE. IMAGINING A JAPANESE PACIFIC, 1884-1907 1. Immigrant Frontiersmen in America and the Origins of Japanese Settler Colonialism 2. Vanguard of an Expansive Japan: Knowledge Producers, Frontier Trotters, and Settlement Builders from across the Pacific PART TWO. CHAMPIONING OVERSEAS JAPANESE DEVELOPMENT,1908-1928 3. Transpacific Migrants and the Blurring Boundaries of State and Private Settler Colonialism 4. US Immigration Exclusion, Japanese America, and Transmigrants on Japan's Brazilian Frontiers PART THREE. SPEARHEADING JAPAN'S IMPERIAL SETTLER COLONIALISM, 1924-1945 5. Japanese California and Its Colonial Diaspora: Translocal Manchuria Connections 6. Japanese Hawai'i and Its Tropical Nexus: Translocal Remigration to Colonial Taiwan and the Nan'yo PART FOUR. HISTORY AND FUTURITY IN JAPAN'S IMPERIAL SETTLER COLONIALISM, 1932-1945 7. Japanese Pioneers in America and the Making of Expansionist Orthodoxy in Imperial Japan 8. The Call of Blood: Japanese American Citizens and the Education of the Empire's Future "Frontier Fighters" Epilogue: The Afterlife of Japanese Settler Colonialism Glossary of Japanese Names: Remigrants from the Continental United States and Hawai'i Notes Index

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• NCID: BB29025412
• ISBN:
  • 9780520304383
• LCCN: 2019002016
• Country Code: us
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: Oakland, Calif.
• Pages/Volumes: xii, 353 p.
• Size: 24 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : DS885.48
  • DC23 : 970.004/956
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Japan -- Colonies -- History
  • LCSH : Japanese -- North America -- History
  • LCSH : Imperialism
  • LCSH : Transnationalism
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BA81851369