Documenting mobility in the Japanese empire and beyond
This book tackles the question of border control in and around imperial Japan in the first half of the twentieth century, with a specific focus on its documentation regime.It explores the institutional development, media and literary discourses, and on[1]the-ground practices of documentary identific...
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| Format: | Book/Monograph |
| Language: | English |
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[Singapore]
Palgrave Macmillan
2022
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 2022 |
| Series: | New directions in East Asian history
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| Online Access: | Cover
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| Author Notes: | edited by Takahiro Yamamoto |
Table of Contents:
- 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.