Documenting mobility in the Japanese empire and beyond / Takahiro Yamamoto, editor.
Yamamoto, Takahiro (Writer on Japanese history), editor.
2022
DS885.2
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Title Documenting mobility in the Japanese empire and beyond / Takahiro Yamamoto, editor.
ISBN 9789811663918 (electronic bk.)
9811663912 (electronic bk.)
9789811663901
9811663904
DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-6391-8
Published Singapore : Palgrave Macmillan, [2022]
Copyright ©2022
Language English
Description 1 online resource (xv, 285 pages) : illustrations (some color).
Other Standard Identifiers 10.1007/978-981-16-6391-8 doi
Call Number DS885.2
Dewey Decimal Classification 952.03
Summary This book tackles the question of border control in and around imperial Japan in the first half of the twentieth century, with a specific focus on its documentation regime. It explores the institutional development, media and literary discourses, and on[1]the-ground practices of documentary identification in the Japanese empire and the places visited by its subjects. The contributing authors, covering such regions as Korea, Manchuria, Taiwan, Siberia, Australia, and the United States, place the question of individual identity in the eyes of the respective governments in dialogue with the global developments of the identification and mobility control practices. The chapters suggest the importance of focusing more than previously on the narrative of individual identification, not as a tool for creating nation states but as a tool for generating, strengthening, and maintaining asymmetrical relationships between people of different socioeconomic backgrounds who moved in and out of empires. This book joins the effort in the recent scholarship in migration history to highlight experiences of migrants beyond the transatlantic world, and that in East Asian history to investigate the space and connections beyond the boundaries of the nation states. By bringing together the analyses on the trans-Pacific mobility and Japans imperial expansion and its aftermath in East Asia, it shows a complex interplay between state power and moving individuals, two forces whose relationships went far beyond simple competition. Takahiro Yamamoto is Assistant Professor of Cultural Economic History at Ruprecht-Karls-Universitat Heidelberg, Germany. His focus is on the history of modern Japan, especially with regard to its borders, cross-border connections, and human mobility. Prior to coming to Heidelberg, Germany, he was a Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) Research Fellow (2016-2017), affiliated with the Graduate Schools of Law and Politics at the University of Tokyo. He has also served as a Global Perspectives on Society Teaching Fellow at New York University Shanghai. .
Note Includes index.
Bibliography, etc. Note References -- Imperial Japan and the Passport Conference in the 1920s -- Contextualizing the Passport Conferences -- The Second Passport Conference -- A View from the Japanese Diplomat -- Conclusion -- References -- Ideas and Resistance -- "... polished and cultured, speaking English fluently" The First Japanese Doctor of Broome -- 'A White Australia' -- 'A Good Friendly Feeling' -- 'A Burning Question' -- 'A Newcomer Galen' -- Conclusion -- References -- Cross-Imperial Critique of Border Control: Japanese Socialists' Responses to the US Immigration Act of 1924
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Source of Description Online resource; title from PDF title page (SpringerLink, viewed November 18, 2022).
Added Author Yamamoto, Takahiro (Writer on Japanese history), editor.
Series New directions in East Asian history.
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Intro
Acknowledgements
Contents
Notes on Contributors
List of Figures
Introduction: The Imperial Paperchase
Identifying Japanese on the Move
Outline of the Book
References
Laws and Transgressions
Legislating Global Mobility in Japan: Opening the Pacific, Treaty Ports, and Asian Exclusion
Looking Backward from 1874: Legislating Access and Restriction
The First Round of Treaties in Global Context, 1853-1856
The Second Round of Treaties in Global Context, 1858-1871
The Colima's Arrival at Yokohama in 1874: Regulating Access

The Mobility of Western Treaty Nationals in Japan
The Mobility of Chinese Subjects in Japan
Looking Forward from 1874: New Laws on Access and Exclusion
Navigating Increased Mobility
Revised Legislation-Opening Japan and Excluding Asians, 1894-1899
Conclusion
References
Start of Japanese Rule in Taiwan and the Construction of Travel Certificates
Introduction
From Temporary Travel Certificates to Passports
A Stricter Passport System-From Personal Descriptions to Photographs
Introducing Photographs on the Work Permits for Tea Factory Workers from Qing
Conclusion

Paternalistic Criticisms of Japanese Protests in Central Review
Cross-Imperial Critique of Immigration Control in The New Man and Beyond
The Ship in Cross-Imperial Critique
(Im)Possibilities of Shipboard Resistance and Solidarity
Gender and Japanese Migration
Conclusion
References
The Paper and the Body
Biometric Technologies and Mobilities: Controlling Workers and Citizens in Manchukuo
Criminality, Mobility, and Fingerprinting
Introduction of Fingerprinting in Japan
Fingerprint Registration by the South Manchuria Railway Company

The Plan for a Comprehensive Identification System in Manchukuo (1932-1936)
The Start of Worker Fingerprint Registration (1937-1939)
From Controlling Workers to Registering National Citizens (1940-1945)
Continuities of Imperial Control in Postwar Japan
Conclusion
References
The Collapse of the Japanese Empire and the Institutionalization of Personal ID Cards
How States Control Residents
The Imperial Legal System and Family Registration
Korean Groups as Collaborators
Policing Koreans After the War
Institutionalization of Identification Cards
Conclusion

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