Tōhoku unbounded : regional identity and the mobile subject in prewar Japan / by Anne Giblin Gedacht.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gedacht, Anne Giblin, author.

Series:

Studies in global social history ; v. 48.

Studies in global migration history ; v. 15.

Studies in global social history ; volume 48

Studies in global migration history ; volume 15

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Migration, Internal--Japan--Tōhoku Region--History.

Migration, Internal.

Regionalism--Japan--Tōhoku Region--History.

Regionalism.

National characteristics, Japanese.

Japanese diaspora.

Emigration and immigration.

Tōhoku Region (Japan)--History--20th century.

Tōhoku Region (Japan).

Tōhoku Region (Japan)--History--19th century.

Tōhoku Region (Japan)--Emigration and immigration.

Japan--Tōhoku Region.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

xvi, 272 pages : color illustrations, color maps ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2023]

Summary:

"In 1870, a prominent samurai from Tōhoku sells his castle to become an agrarian colonist in Hokkaidō. Decades later, a man also from northeast Japan stows away on a boat to Canada and establishes a salmon roe business. By 1930, an investigative journalist travels to Brazil and writes a book that wins the first-ever Akutagawa Prize. In the 1940s, residents from the same area proclaim that they should lead Imperial Japan in colonizing all of Asia. Across decades and oceans, these fractured narratives seem disparate, but show how mobility is central to the history of Japan's Tōhoku region, a place often stereotyped as a site of rural stasis and traditional immobility, thereby collapsing boundaries between local, national, and global studies of Japan. This book examines how multiple mobilities converge in Japan's supposed hinterland. Drawing on research from three continents, this monograph demonstrates that Tohoku's regional identity is inextricably intertwined with Pacific migrations"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: 1. Looking North: Assessing the Boundaries of the Meiji State

1. Before Tohoku: Placing Ou Cartographically and Politically

2. Becoming a Borderland-in-Transition and Catalyzing Frontier-to-Frontier Migration

3. Dismantling Ken, Dismembering Maps, and Defining Tohoku

4. Settling Hokkaido through Patronage: Tohoku Families Move North

5. Repositioning Power through Co-dependence: Date Kunishige in Iburi

6. Identifying a Pattern: Regionalism as Cornerstone of Private Settlement

7. Mobilized Regionalism and Reframing the Soldier-Settler Villages

8. Tondenhei in the Imperial Army: Confounding Loyalties and Readjudicating the Modern

9. Pragmatism and the Hokkaido Modern: Blurring Class and Rising Regionalism

10. Conclusion

2. Exporting Regionalism Tohoku-Japanese Immigrant Culture

1. To Be `Japanese' Abroad: The Hegemonic Culture of Japan's Southwestern Issei

2. Emigrants as Embodiments of National Prestige

3. Imagining `Japan,' Discovering the `Japanese'

4. To Be from Both Japan and `Tohoku,' Regionalism from the Outside

5. To Be Both Emigrant and Immigrant: The Institutionalization of Difference within Unity

6. Tohoku-based Kenjinkai in Southern California: Sharing Wealth and Building Community

7. Sojourners and Settlers: Building Bridges between Japan and Canada through Kenjinkai

8. Conclusion

3. Normalizing the Exceptional History, Myth, and Memory in Immigrant Ethnicity

1. Narrating the Exceptional: History and Mythmaking

2. Gannen-Mono and Boshin War Refugees: Revisiting the Wakamatsu Colony

3. Martyred Memories: The Ghost of Okei and the Nobility of Failure

4. The Roots of Migrant Lineages: `Fathers of Migration' Narratives

5. Katsunuma Tomizo, Progenitor of a Migrant Network

6. Oikawa Jinzaburo, Patriarch of a Trans-Pacific Village

7. The Afterlives of Oikawa and the Suian Maru Story

8. Remembering to Forget: The Filipino-Japanese Community

9. Conclusion: Memorialization and Mobilization

4. Writing Domestic Regionalism Seeking `Authentic' Tohoku in Interwar Japan

1. Rooting Modernity in Tradition: Seeking Authenticity to Combat Modern Alienation

2. "Where Are You From?": Linking People to the Land to Combat Alienation

3. Tohoku and Tono Monogatari: A Heterochronic Region Outside of Time

4. Tohoku in the In-betweens: Region in International Waters and at Emigration Centers

5. The Postwar Satire of Inoue Hisashi: A Tohoku Native Revisits Tono Monogatari

6. Conclusion

5. "Leading Tohoku Asia" Regional Identity within Imperial Japan

1. Love of Hometown as Love of Nation: Placing Empire through the Periodical Furusato

2. Patriotic Emigration to Greater Japan: An Extreme Makeover of the Countryside

3. Historicizing Manchurian Emigration: Hokkaido and `Father of Migration' Narratives

4. Divided Villages: Manufacturing Bridges to Greater East Asia

5. Tohoku at War: Patriotic Expansionism as Regionalist Discourse

6. Conclusion: Coupling Patriotic Nationalism to a Mobile Tohoku Identity.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Giblin Gedacht, Anne. Tōhoku unbounded

ISBN:

9789004527935

9004527931

OCLC:

1344158452

Publisher Number:

99992599612