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Title The Japanese Empire and Latin America / edited by Pedro Iacobelli and Sidney Xu Lu
Published Honolulu : University of Hawaiʻi Press, [2023]

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Description 1 online resource (vi, 310 pages) : illustrations
Contents Turning the Water into Fair Pools: Prewar Japan's Paternalistic Outreach in Its South American Emigration Policy / Toake Endoh -- Japanese Shipping Lines in Latin America, 1905-1941 / Elijah J. Greenstein -- Toward a Prototype of the Total Empire: Japanese Migration to Brazil and Japanese Colonial Expansion in Asia, 1921-1934 / Sidney Xu Lu -- Transpacific Migration and Japan's Extraterritorial Settler Colonialism in the US-Mexican Borderlands / Eiichiro Azuma -- The Immigrant-Homeland Connection: The Development of the Japanese Community in Peru / Ayumi Takenaka -- Guiding Settlers: The Overseas Development Company and the Recruitment of Rural Brazil, 1918-1936 / Andre Kobayashi Deckro -- "South America Bound": Japanese Settler Colonist Fiction of the Meiji Era / Seth Jacobowitz -- Chasing the Transnational Flow of Books and Magazines: Materials, Knowledge, and Network / Yoshitaka Hibi -- Immigrant Propaganda: Translating Japanese Imperial Ideology into Argentine Nationalism / Facundo Garasino -- After the Empire: Postwar Emigration to the Dominican Republic and Economic Diplomacy / Hiromi Mizuno -- Were Issei in Brazil Imperialists? Emigration-Driven Expansionism in Nikkei Literature / Ignacio López-Calvo
Summary "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 trans-Pacific 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"-- Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on March 13, 2023)
Subject Japanese -- Latin America -- History
HISTORY / Asia / Japan
Commerce.
Emigration and immigration -- Government policy.
Japanese.
SUBJECT Japan -- Emigration and immigration -- Government policy
Japan -- Commerce -- Latin America
Latin America -- Commerce -- Japan
Subject Japan.
Latin America.
Genre/Form History.
Form Electronic book
Author Iacobelli, Pedro, editor.
Lu, Sidney Xu, 1981- editor.
LC no. 2022044590
ISBN 9780824894634
0824894634
9780824894610
0824894618
9780824894627
0824894626