Documenting mobility in the Japanese empire and beyond

Documenting mobility in the Japanese empire and beyond / Takahiro Yamamoto, editor.

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 identifi...

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Other Authors: Yamamoto, Takahiro (Writer on Japanese history) (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Singapore : Palgrave Macmillan, [2022]
Series:New directions in East Asian history.
Subjects:
1900-1999
Imperialism > History > 20th century.
Emigration and immigration
Imperialism
Japan > History > 20th century.
Japan > Emigration and immigration > History > 20th century.
Japan
Electronic books.
History
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: The imperial paperchase
  • Laws and transgressions. Legislating global mobility in Japan : opening the Pacific, treaty ports, and Asian exclusion
  • Start of Japanese rule in Taiwan and the construction of travel certificates
  • Imperial Japan and the passport conference in the 1920s
  • Ideas and resistance. "... polished and cultured, speaking English fluently" the first Japanese doctor of Broome
  • Cross-imperial critique of border control : Japanese socialists' responses to the US Immigration Act of 1924
  • The paper and the body. Biometric technologies and mobilities : controlling workers and citizens in Manchukuo
  • The collapse of the Japanese empire and the institutionalization of personal ID cards
  • Documenting the Siberian odyssey of Japanese former servicemen and civilians, 1945-1956.

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