The International Military Tribunal for the Far East (IMTFE) found
Japan guilty of deliberately promoting drug abuse as a weapon to
further its imperialistic aims in Asia. This study provides the
historical context behind the IMTFE's findings from the annexation
of Taiwan in 1895 to the end of World War II. Given the extent to
which drug use permeated the politics, economy, and culture of
Asia, it was inevitable that Japan's rise as an imperial power
would lead to contact with, and increasing involvement in, the
opium and narcotics trade. This study argues that the nature of
that involvement should be understood not simply in terms of a
conspiracy to drug the people of Asia into submission, but rather
as indicative of the general twists and turns of Japanese
imperialism. Thus, opium and narcotics emerge not so much as a
weapon of, but rather as a metaphor for, Japanese imperialism in
Asia.
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