Prisons and Forced Labour in Japan - The Colonization of Hokkaido, 1881-1894

This book examines the local, national, and international significance of convict labour during the colonization of Hokkaido between 1881 and 1894. Based on the analysis of archival, it uses a framework of global prison studies to trace the historical origins of prisons and forced labour in early modern Japan.

List of contents

List of illustrations

Technical notes

Acknowledgements

Foreword

Introduction

1 Forced labour and arrest in Edo and Ezo

2 Hokkaido prison island

3 Prisons and rural development, 1881–1886

4 Hard labour as penal servitude, 1886–1894

5 Conclusion
Index

About the author

Pia Maria Jolliffe is a Research and Teaching Associate at the Nissan Institute of Japanese Studies and a Research Fellow at Blackfriars Hall, University of Oxford, UK. She is the author of Learning, Migration and Intergenerational Relations: The Karen and the Gift of Education (2016).

Summary

This book examines the local, national, and international significance of convict labour during the colonization of Hokkaido between 1881 and 1894. Based on the analysis of archival, it uses a framework of global prison studies to trace the historical origins of prisons and forced labour in early modern Japan.

Product details

• Authors: Pia Jolliffe, Pia (Las Casas Institute Jolliffe, Pia Maria Jolliffe, Jolliffe Pia
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.09.2020
• EAN: 9780367670405
• ISBN: 978-0-367-67040-5
• No. of pages: 82
• Series: Routledge Focus on Asia
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Japan, Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900, HISTORY / General, HISTORY / Asia / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Regional Studies, HISTORY / Asia / Japan, c 1800 to c 1900, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, Colonialism & imperialism, c 1500 onwards to present day, Colonialism and imperialism, Asian History, Penology and punishment, Prisons, History and Archaeology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Cultural & Ethnic Studies / General