Exporting Japan : politics of emigration toward Latin America / Toake Endoh.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Endō, Toake, 1962-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Japanese--Latin America--History.

Japanese.

Japan--Emigration and immigration--Government policy--History.

Japan.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (281 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Urbana : University of Illinois Press, c2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Exporting Japan examines the domestic origins of the Japanese government's policies to promote the emigration of approximately three hundred thousand native Japanese citizens to Latin America between the 1890s and the 1960s. This imperialist policy, spanning two world wars and encompassing both the pre-World War II authoritarian government and the postwar conservative regime, reveals strategic efforts by the Japanese state to control its populace while building an expansive nation beyond its territorial borders. Toake Endoh compellingly argues that Japan's emigration policy embodied the state's anxieties over domestic political stability and its intention to remove marginalized and radicalized social groups by relocating them abroad. Documenting the disproportionate focus of the southwest region of Japan as a source of emigrants, Endoh considers the state's motivations in formulating emigration policies that selected certain elements of the Japanese population for "export." She also recounts the situations migrants encountered once they reached Latin America, where they were often met with distrust and violence in the "yellow scare" of the pre-World War II period.

Contents:

Origins, historical development, and patterns of Japanese migration to Latin America

The first wave of Japanese migration to Latin America

The second wave: post-World War II period

Latin American emigration as a national strategy

Building the emigration machinery

Post-World War II resurgence of state-led migration to Latin America

State expansion through human exclusion

Social origins of Japanese emigration policy

Latin American emigration as political decompressor

State expansion through emigration.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [239]-251) and index.

ISBN:

9786613043993

9781283043991

1283043998

9780252091100

0252091108

OCLC:

748779774