Going to Manchuria. Imperial Japan, migrant workers, and the mobilization of Tokyo

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DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.5117/9789048557820/ICAS.2022.082" target="_blank" >10.5117/9789048557820/ICAS.2022.082</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Going to Manchuria. Imperial Japan, migrant workers, and the mobilization of Tokyo

Original language description

The emigration movement to Manchuria began in full scale with the establishment of Manchukuo in 1932, when approximately 300,000 Japanese people migrated to northeastern China to the end of the war. Recent scholarship on Manchuria has focused on non-state, non-elite actors, unlike postwar scholarship that centered its attention on national economic and political elites in order to critique the governing structures and their operation. Following this trend, this paper explores the settlers from Tokyo who were poor but dreamed about renewing their lives in Manchuria, thereby supporting the Japanese empire. Considering the sheer number of settlers who participated in the emigration movement, cases of Tokyo might not reflect largely on the national efforts. However, Tokyo occupied an indispensable place in the emigration campaign by modeling the patterns and structures that would form the national agenda. This paper examines why many people willingly supported the occupation of foreign land and analyzes the complex apparatus that structured and managed the mobilization operation without imposing a cohesive authoritarian regime. The paper concludes that what enabled such popular participation was a widespread culture of imperialism made evident in the action of the poor Japanese citizens who chose to become farmers in Manchuria.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

D - Article in proceedings

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

60101 - History (history of science and technology to be 6.3, history of specific sciences to be under the respective headings)

Project

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2022

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Article name in the collection

The Twelfth International Convention of Asia Scholars (ICAS 12)

ISBN

9789048557820

ISSN

2949-6721

e-ISSN

2949-6721

Number of pages

6

Pages from-to

709-714

Publisher name

Amsterdam University Press

Place of publication

neuveden

Event location

Kyoto

Event date

Aug 24, 2021

Type of event by nationality

WRD - Celosvětová akce

UT code for WoS article

000865764900082