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The Japanese Empire and Latin America provides a comprehensive
analysis of the complicated relationship between Japanese migration
and capital exportation to Latin America and the rise and fall of
the empire in the Asia-Pacific region. It explains how Japan’s
presence influenced the cultures and societies of Latin American
countries and also explores the role of Latin America in the
evolution of Japanese expansion. Together, this collection of
essays presents a new narrative of the Japanese experience in Latin
America by excavating transpacific perspectives that shed new light
on the global significance of Japan’s colonialism and
expansionism. The chapters cover a variety of topics, such as
economic expansion, migration management, cross-border community
making, the surge of pro-Japan propaganda in the Americas, the
circulation of knowledge, and the representation of the "other" in
Japanese and Latin American fictions. By focusing on both
government action and individual experiences, the viewpoints
examined create a complete analysis, including the roles the empire
played in the process of settler identity formation in Latin
America. While the colonialist and expansionist discourses in Japan
set a stage for the beginning of Japanese migration to Latin
America, it was the vibrant circulation of information between East
Asia and the Americas that allowed the empire to stay at the center
of the cultural life of communities on the other side of the globe.
The empire left an enduring mark on Latin America that is hard to
ignore. This volume explores long-neglected aspects of the Japanese
global expansion; and thus, moves our understanding of the
empire’s significance beyond Asia and rethinks its legacy in
global history.
This fascinating study examines the discourse of science in Japan
from the 1920s to the 1940s in relation to nationalism and
imperialism. How did Japan, with Shinto creation mythology at the
absolute core of its national identity, come to promote the
advancement of science and technology? Using what logic did wartime
Japanese embrace both the rationality that denied and the
nationalism that promoted this mythology?
Focusing on three groups of science promoters--technocrats,
Marxists, and popular science proponents--this work demonstrates
how each group made sense of apparent contradictions by
articulating its politics through different definitions of science
and visions of a scientific Japan. The contested, complex political
endeavor of talking about and promoting science produced what the
author calls "scientific nationalism," a powerful current of
nationalism that has been overlooked by scholars of Japan,
nationalism, and modernity.
This fascinating study examines the discourse of science in Japan
from the 1920s to the 1940s in relation to nationalism and
imperialism. How did Japan, with Shinto creation mythology at the
absolute core of its national identity, come to promote the
advancement of science and technology? Using what logic did wartime
Japanese embrace both the rationality that denied and the
nationalism that promoted this mythology?
Focusing on three groups of science promoters--technocrats,
Marxists, and popular science proponents--this work demonstrates
how each group made sense of apparent contradictions by
articulating its politics through different definitions of science
and visions of a scientific Japan. The contested, complex political
endeavor of talking about and promoting science produced what the
author calls "scientific nationalism," a powerful current of
nationalism that has been overlooked by scholars of Japan,
nationalism, and modernity.
Weaving together chapters on imperial Japan's wartime mobilization,
Asia's first wave of postwar decolonization, and Cold War
geopolitical conflict in the region, Engineering Asia seeks to
demonstrate how Asia's present prosperity did not arise from a
so-called 'economic miracle' but from the violent and dynamic
events of the 20th century. The book argues that what continued to
operate throughout these tumultuous eras were engineering networks
of technology. Constructed at first for colonial development under
Japan, these networks transformed into channels of overseas
development aid that constituted the Cold War system in Asia.
Through highlighting how these networks helped shape Asia's
contemporary economic landscape, Engineering Asia challenges
dominant narratives in Western scholarship of an 'economic miracle'
in Japan and South Korea, and the 'Asian Tigers' of Southeast Asia.
Students and scholars of East Asian studies, development studies,
postcolonialism, Cold War studies and the history of technology and
science will find this book immensely useful.
Weaving together chapters on imperial Japan's wartime mobilization,
Asia's first wave of postwar decolonization, and Cold War
geopolitical conflict in the region, Engineering Asia seeks to
demonstrate how Asia's present prosperity did not arise from a
so-called 'economic miracle' but from the violent and dynamic
events of the 20th century. The book argues that what continued to
operate throughout these tumultuous eras were engineering networks
of technology. Constructed at first for colonial development under
Japan, these networks transformed into channels of overseas
development aid that constituted the Cold War system in Asia.
Through highlighting how these networks helped shape Asia's
contemporary economic landscape, Engineering Asia challenges
dominant narratives in Western scholarship of an 'economic miracle'
in Japan and South Korea, and the 'Asian Tigers' of Southeast Asia.
Students and scholars of East Asian studies, development studies,
postcolonialism, Cold War studies and the history of technology and
science will find this book immensely useful.
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