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Book SynopsisA work on modern Japanese colonialism and imperialism. It includes essays that seek to illuminate some of the significant processes and institutions during the period when the empire was at war.
Table of ContentsPrefaceIntroduction: Japan's Wartime Empire: Problems and IssuesCh. 1Total War, Industrialization, and Social Change in Late Colonial Korea3Ch. 2The Kominka Movement in Taiwan and Korea: Comparisons and Interpretations40Ch. 3Imagined Empire: The Cultural Construction of Manchukuo71Ch. 4Managing Occupied Manchuria, 1931-193497Ch. 5Creating a Modern Enclave Economy: The Economic Integration of Japan, Manchuria, and North China, 1932-1945136Ch. 6The Yen Bloc, 1931-1941171Ch. 7Nanshin: The "Southward Advance," 1931-1941, as a Prelude to the Japanese Occupation of Southeast Asia189Ch. 8Anomaly or Model? Independent Thailand's Role in Japan's Asian Strategy, 1941-1943243Ch. 9Cooperation, Submission, and Resistance of Indigenous Elites of Southeast Asia in the Wartime Empire274Ch. 10The "Comfort Women"305Ch. 11The Postwar Economic Legacy of Japan's Wartime Empire324Ch. 12Reflections on the Japanese and German Empires of World War II335Contributors363Index367
