Title Brokers of empire : Japanese settler colonialism in Korea, 1876-1945 / Jun Uchida

Published Cambridge, Massachusetts : Published by the Harvard University Asia Center, 2011 Cambridge, Massachusetts : Distributed by Harvard University Press ©2011

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Description 1 online resource (xvi, 481 pages) : illustrations, maps, photographs Series Harvard East Asian monographs ; 337 Harvard East Asian monographs ; 337. Contents Emergence. The world of settlers -- Settlers and the state: uneasy partners -- In action. Building an empire of harmony -- The discourse on Korea and Koreans -- Industrializing the peninsula -- In search of a political voice -- Organs of the state. The Manchurian impact -- Citizens and subjects under total war Summary Between 1876 and 1945, thousands of Japanese civilians-merchants, traders, prostitutes, journalists, teachers, and adventurers-left their homeland for a new life on the Korean peninsula. Although most migrants were guided primarily by personal profit and only secondarily by national interest, their mundane lives and the states ambitions were inextricably entwined in the rise of imperial Japan. Despite having formed one of the largest colonial communities in the twentieth century, these settlers and their empire-building activities have all but vanished from the public memory of Japans presence in Korea. Drawing on previously unused materials in multi-language archives, Jun Uchida looks behind the official organs of state and military control to focus on the obscured history of these settlers, especially the first generation of pioneers between the 1910s and 1930s who actively mediated the colonial management of Korea as its grassroots movers and shakers. By uncovering the downplayed but dynamic role played by settler leaders who operated among multiple parties-between the settler community and the Government-General, between Japanese colonizer and Korean colonized, between colony and metropole-this study examines how these brokers of empire advanced their commercial and political interests while contributing to the expansionist project of imperial Japan. -- Publisher description Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 415-457) and index Notes Online resource; title from PDF title page (JSTOR, viewed April 15, 2020) SUBJECT Gug lib mun hwa jae yeon gu so gnd Honʼyaku iin shachū Japan gnd Subject Japanese -- Colonization -- History Japanese -- Korea -- History Colonists -- Korea -- History POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Colonialism & Post-Colonialism. Colonists Colonization Japanese Colonies -- Administration Japaner Kolonialismus Siedler Japaner. Siedler. Kolonisation. SUBJECT Korea -- History -- Japanese occupation, 1910-1945. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85073038 Korea -- History -- 1864-1910. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85073034 Korea -- Colonization -- History Japan -- Colonies -- Administration Subject Korea Korea. Japaner. Genre/Form History Form Electronic book Author Harvard University. Asia Center. ISBN 9781684175109 1684175100

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