Nation-Empire - Ideology and Rural Youth Mobilization in Japan and Its Colonies

By the end of World War II, hundreds of thousands of young men in the Japanese colonies, in particular Taiwan and Korea, had expressed their loyalty to the empire by volunteering to join the army. Why and how did so many colonial youth become passionate supporters of Japanese imperial nationalism? And what happened to these youth after the war...

Summary

By the end of World War II, hundreds of thousands of young men in the Japanese colonies, in particular Taiwan and Korea, had expressed their loyalty to the empire by volunteering to join the army. Why and how did so many colonial youth become passionate supporters of Japanese imperial nationalism? And what happened to these youth after the war...

Product details

• Authors: Sayaka Chatani
• Publisher: Cornell University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.12.2018
• EAN: 9781501730757
• ISBN: 978-1-5017-3075-7
• No. of pages: 277
• Series: Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University; Studies of the Weatherhead Eas; Studies of the Weatherhead Eas; Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous