The Japanese Wartime Empire, 1931-1945 / / ed. by Peter Duus, Ramon H. Myers, Mark R. Peattie.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Archive 1927-1999
• MitwirkendeR: Chou, Wan-yao,; Duus, Peter,; Eckert, Carter J.,; Gann, L. H.,; Goto, Ken\x27ichi,; Hicks, George,; Kobayashi, Hideo,; Matsusaka, Y. Tak,; Myers, Ramon H.,; Nakamura, Takafusa,; Peattie, Mark R.,; Reynolds, E. Bruce,; Young, Louise,
• HerausgeberIn: Duus, Peter,; Myers, Ramon H.,; Peattie, Mark R.,
• Place / Publishing House: Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2021]; ©1996
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (432 p.) :; 8 halftones, 12 tables.

With this book the editors complete the three-volume series on modern Japanese colonialism and imperialism that began with The Japanese Colonial Empire, 1895-1945 (Princeton, 1983) and The Japanese Informal Empire in China, 1895-1937 (Princeton, 1989). The Japanese military takeover in Manchuria between 1931 and 1932 was a critical turning point in East Asian history. It marked the first surge of Japanese aggression beyond the boundaries of its older colonial empire and set Japan on a collision course with China and Western colonial powers from 1937 through 1945. These essays seek to illuminate some of the more significant processes and institutions during the period when the empire was at war: the creation of a Japanese-dominated East Asian economic bloc centered in northeast Asia, the mobilization of human and physical resources in the older established areas of Japanese colonial rule, and the penetration and occupation of Southeast Asia.Introduced by Peter Duus, the volume contains four sections: Japan's Wartime Empire and the Formal Colonies (Carter J. Eckert and Wan-yao Chou), Japan's Wartime Empire and Northeast Asia (Louise Young, Y. Tak Matsusaka, Ramon H. Myers, and Takafusa Nakamura), Japan's Wartime Empire and Southeast Asia (Mark R. Peattie, E. Bruce Reynolds, and Ken'ichi Goto), and Japan's Wartime Empire in Other Perspectives (George Hicks, Hideo Kobayashi, and L. H. Gann).

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction / Japan's Wartime Empire: Problems and Issues -- PART I: Japan's Wartime Empire and the Formal Colonies -- Chapter 1 / Total War, Industrialization, and Social Change in Late Colonial Korea -- Chapter 2 / The Kominka Movement in Taiwan and Korea: Comparisons and Interpretations -- PART II: Japan's Wartime Empire and Northeast Asia -- Chapter 3 / Imagined Empire: The Cultural Construction of Manchukuo -- Chapter 4 / Managing Occupied Manchuria, 1931-1934. -- Chapter 5 / Creating a Modern Enclave Economy: The Economic Integration of Japan, Manchuria, and North China, 1932-1945. -- Chapter 6 / The Yen Bloc, 1931-1941 -- PART III: Japan's Wartime Empire and Southeast Asia -- Chapter 7 / Nanshin: The "Southward Advance," 1931-1941, as a Prelude to the Japanese Occupation of Southeast Asia -- Chapter 8 / Anomaly or Model? Independent Thailand's Role in Japan's Asian Strategy, 1941-1943. -- Chapter 9 / Cooperation, Submission, and Resistance of Indigenous Elites of Southeast Asia in the Wartime Empire. -- PART IV: Japan's Wartime Empire in Other Perspectives -- Chapter 10 / The "Comfort Women." -- Chapter 11 / The Postwar Economic Legacy of Japan's Wartime Empire -- Chapter 12 / Reflections on the Japanese and German Empires of World War II. -- Contributors -- Index -- About the Editors