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Nation-empire ideology and rural youth mobilization in Japan and its colonies /

By the end of World War II, hundreds of thousands of young men in the Japanese colonies, in particular Taiwan and Korea, had expressed their loyalty to the empire by volunteering to join the army. Why and how did so many colonial youth become passionate supporters of Japanese imperial nationalism? A...

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Main Author: Chatani, Sayaka,
Format: Book
Language: English
Published: Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2018.
Physical Description: xiv, 347 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.
Series: Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University.
Subjects:
Rural youth -- Political activity -- Japan -- History -- 20th century.
Rural youth -- Political activity -- Taiwan -- History -- 20th century.
Rural youth -- Political activity -- Korea (South) -- History -- 20th century.
Young men -- Political activity -- Japan -- History -- 20th century.
Young men -- Political activity -- Taiwan -- History -- 20th century.
Young men -- Political activity -- Korea (South) -- History -- 20th century.
Nationalism -- Japan -- History -- 20th century.
Nationalism -- Taiwan -- History -- 20th century.
Nationalism -- Korea (South) -- History -- 20th century.
Japan -- Colonies -- History -- 20th century.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : nation-empire as global and local history
  • National trends
  • From mobilization to the social mobility complex
  • Totalitarian Japanization
  • Interlude : Okinawa's place in the nation-empire
  • Colonial intellectuals
  • Finding rural youth in Taiwan
  • Emotional basis for Japanization
  • Model rural youth in Korean village
  • Opportunities and loopholes
  • As young pillars of the nation-empire
  • Epilogue : back in villages.

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