The making of Japanese settler colonialism : Malthusianism and trans-Pacific migration, 1868-1961
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The making of Japanese settler colonialism : Malthusianism and trans-Pacific migration, 1868-1961
（Studies of the East Asian Institute）
Cambridge University Press, 2020
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 275-294) and index
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Description
This innovative study demonstrates how Japanese empire-builders invented and appropriated the discourse of overpopulation to justify Japanese settler colonialism across the Pacific. Lu defines this overpopulation discourse as 'Malthusian expansionism'. This was a set of ideas that demanded additional land abroad to accommodate the supposed surplus people in domestic society on the one hand and emphasized the necessity of national population growth on the other. Lu delineates ideological ties, human connections and institutional continuities between Japanese colonial migration in Asia and Japanese migration to Hawaii and North and South America from 1868 to 1961. He further places Malthusian expansionism at the center of the logic of modern settler colonialism, challenging the conceptual division between migration and settler colonialism in global history. This title is also available as Open Access.
Table of Contents
- Introduction: Malthusian expansion and settler colonialism
- Part I. Emergence, 1868-1894: 1. From Hokkaido to California: the birth of Malthusian expansionism in modern Japan
- 2. Population and racial struggle: the South Seas, Hawai'i, and Latin America
- Part II. Transformation, 1894-1924: 3. Commoners of empire: labor migration to the United States
- 4. Farming rice in Texas: the paradigm shift
- 5. 'Carrying the white man's burden': the rise of farmer migration to Brazil
- Part III. Culmination, 1924-1945: 6. Making the migration state: Malthusian expansionism and agrarianism
- 7. The illusion of coexistence and coprosperity: settler colonialism in Brazil and Manchuria
- Part IV. Resurgence, 1945-1961: 8. The birth of a 'small' Japan: postwar migration to South America
- Conclusion: rethinking migration and settler colonialism in the modern world.
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