Demarcating Japan : Imperialism, Islanders, and Mobility, 1855–1884 / Takahiro Yamamoto.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Yamamoto, Takahiro, author.

Series:

Harvard East Asian monographs ; Volume 460.

Harvard East Asian Monograph Series ; Volume 460

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Imperialism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (284 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Other Title:

Imperialism, Islanders, and Mobility, 1855–1884

Place of Publication:

Massachusetts ; Cambridge : Harvard University Asia Center, 2023.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Histories of remote islands around Japan are usually told through the prism of territorial disputes. In contrast, Takahiro Yamamoto contends that the transformation of the islands from ambiguous border zones to a territorialized space emerged out of multilateral power relations. Sakhalin, the Kuril Islands, Tsushima, the Bonin Islands, and the Ryukyu Islands became the subject of inter-imperial negotiations during the formative years of modern Japan as empires nudged each other to secure their status with minimal costs rather than fighting a territorial scramble. Based on multiarchival, multilingual research, Demarcating Japan argues that the transformation of border islands should be understood as an interconnected process, where inter-local referencing played a key role in the outcome: Japan’s geographical expansion in the face of domineering Extra-Asian empires. See Less

Contents:

Imperialists and Interpreters in the Tsushima Strait Region

The Ryukyu Islanders and Their Altered Mobilities

Violence, Conviviality, and Survival in Sakhalin

And Then There Were None: The Kuril Islands

"No Gain in Owning, No Pain in Losing":

The Bonin Islands.

Notes:

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-68417-671-9

OCLC:

1443483081

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9781684176717 DOI