Nation-empire : ideology and rural youth mobilization in Japan and its colonies / Sayaka Chatani.

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 (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2018.
Series:Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University.
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Table of Contents:
  • 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.