Tōhoku Unbounded: Regional Identity and the Mobile Subject in Prewar Japan

Anne Giblin Gedacht, Ph.D., (2015), UW-Madison, is Assistant Professor of Modern Japanese History at Seton Hall University. She has published in the Journal of Social History and the Japan Studies Review.

• Preface: Reading Harry Potter in JapanAcknowledgementsList of FiguresIntroduction Region Matters1 Looking North Assessing the Boundaries of the Meiji State1 Before Tōhoku: Placing Ōu Cartographically and Politically2 Becoming a Borderland-in-Transition and Catalyzing Frontier-to-Frontier Migration3 Dismantling Ken, Dismembering Maps, and Defining Tōhoku4 Settling Hokkaidō through Patronage: Tōhoku Families Move North5 Repositioning Power through Co-dependence: Date Kunishige in Iburi6 Identifying a Pattern: Regionalism as Cornerstone of Private Settlement7 Mobilized Regionalism and Reframing the Soldier-Settler Villages8 Tondenhei in the Imperial Army: Confounding Loyalties and Readjudicating the Modern9 Pragmatism and the Hokkaidō Modern: Blurring Class and Rising Regionalism10 Conclusion2 Exporting Regionalism Tōhoku-Japanese Immigrant Culture1 To Be ‘Japanese’ Abroad: The Hegemonic Culture of Japan’s Southwestern Issei2 Emigrants as Embodiments of National Prestige3 Imagining ‘Japan,’ Discovering the ‘Japanese’4 To Be from Both Japan and ‘Tōhoku,’ Regionalism from the Outside5 To Be Both Emigrant and Immigrant: The Institutionalization of Difference within Unity6 Tōhoku-Based Kenjinkai in Southern California: Sharing Wealth and Building Community7 Sojourners and Settlers: Building Bridges between Japan and Canada through Kenjinkai8 Conclusion3 Normalizing the Exceptional History, Myth, and Memory in Immigrant Ethnicity1 Narrating the Exceptional: History and Mythmaking2 Gannen-Mono and Boshin War Refugees: Revisiting Wakamatsu Colony3 Martyred Memories: The Ghost of Okei and the Nobility in Failure4 The Roots of Migrant Lineages: ‘Fathers of Migration’ Narratives5 Katsunuma Tomizō, Progenitor of a Migrant Network6 Oikawa Jinzaburō, Patriarch of a Trans-Pacific Village7 The Afterlives of Oikawa and the Suian Maru Story8 Remembering to Forget: The Filipino-Japanese Community9 Conclusion: Memorialization and Mobilization4 Writing Domestic Regionalism Seeking ‘Authentic’ Tōhoku in Interwar Japan1 Rooting Modernity in Tradition: Seeking Authenticity to Combat Modern Alienation2 “Where Are You From?”: Linking People to the Land to Combat Alienation3 Tōhoku and Tōno Monogatari: A Heterochronic Region Outside of Time4 Tōhoku in the In-betweens: Region in International Waters and at Emigration Centers5 The Postwar Satire of Inoue Hisashi: A Tōhoku Native Revisits Tōno Monogatari6 Conclusion5 “Leading Tōhoku Asia” Regional Identity within Imperial Japan1 Love of Hometown as Love of Nation: Placing Empire through the Periodical Furusato2 Patriotic Emigration to Greater Japan: An Extreme Makeover of the Countryside3 Historicizing Manchurian Emigration: Hokkaidō and ‘Father of Migration’ Narratives4 Divided Villages: Manufacturing Bridges to Greater East Asia5 Tōhoku at War: Patriotic Expansionism as Regionalist Discourse6 Conclusion: Coupling Patriotic Nationalism to a Mobile Tōhoku IdentityEpilogue Tōhoku-damashī: Viewing Regionalism after the Triple Disaster of 11 March 2011BibliographyIndex