Del i serien New Directions in East Asian History

Documenting Mobility in the Japanese Empire and Beyond

Inbunden, Engelska, 2022

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The contributing authors, covering such regions as Korea, Manchuria, Taiwan, Siberia, Australia, and the United States, place the question of individual identity in the eyes of the respective governments in dialogue with the global developments of the identification and mobility control practices.

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Utgivningsdatum2022-11-09
Mått148 x 210 x 25 mm
Vikt506 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieNew Directions in East Asian History
Antal sidor285
FörlagSpringer Verlag, Singapore
ISBN9789811663901

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Takahiro Yamamoto is Assistant Professor of Cultural Economic History at Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg, Germany. His focus is on the history of modern Japan, especially with regard to its borders, cross-border connections, and human mobility. Prior to coming to Heidelberg, Germany, he was a Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) Research Fellow (2016-2017), affiliated with the Graduate Schools of Law and Politics at the University of Tokyo. He has also served as a Global Perspectives on Society Teaching Fellow at New York University Shanghai.

Introduction.- Chapter 1. Registering Koreans: The Collapse of the Japanese Empire and Institutional Change.- Chapter 2. Ordinary Transgressions: Falsifying Public Documents in Colonial Korea.- Chapter 3. Hacking the Machine: How Ordinary Fishers and a Local Knowledge of Nature Redefined Global Connectivity after the ‘Opening’ of Japan.- Chapter 4. Biometric Technologies and Mobilities: Why did fingerprint identification attract the Japanese imperialist power?.- Chapter 5. Documenting the Siberian Odyssey of Japanese Former Servicemen and Civilians, 1945-1956. Chapter 6. Polished and cultured, speaking English fluently: The Japanese Doctor of Broome.- Chapter 7. Crossing and Critiquing Borders: Discourse on Overlapping Imperial Controls.- Chapter 8. Ports, Papers, and People: Tracking Mobility through Modern Japan’s Transportation Systems.- Chapter 9. Japan in the international conferences on passports in the 1920s.