Humanitarian Internationalism Under Empire - The Global Evolution of the Japanese Red Cross Movement, 18771945

This book examines the history of the Japanese Red Cross Society (JRCS) and through it offers a new account of the humanitarian movement in modern Japan.

List of contents

Acknowledgments
Note on Transliteration and Translation
Abbreviations
Introduction
1. Responding to Crises: A People’s Humanitarian Movement
2. Internationalism in Crisis: The Fifteenth International Conference of the Red Cross in Tokyo, 1934
3. Transnational Humanitarian Movement: The Japanese Red Cross Society Overseas
4. Beyond Empire: The Japanese Red Cross Society in Hawai'i and Brazil
5. The Japanese Red Cross Society and World War II: Civilian Casualties, Internees, and Prisoners of War
6. Nuclear Emergency: Japanese Red Cross Society Nurses’ in Hiroshima and Nagasaki, August 1945
Conclusion
Appendix 1. Resolutions of the XVth International Red Cross Conference
Appendix 2. Draft International Convention on the Condition and Protection of Civilians, Tokyo, 1934
Note on Sources
Notes
Bibliography
Index

About the author

Michiko Suzuki is a research scholar in the history of modern and contemporary Japan at the University of Tokyo and received her doctorate at SOAS University of London.

Summary

This book examines the history of the Japanese Red Cross Society (JRCS) and through it offers a new account of the humanitarian movement in modern Japan.

Product details

• Authors: Michiko Suzuki
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 21.06.2024
• EAN: 9780231211642
• ISBN: 978-0-231-21164-2
• No. of pages: 352
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; Japan, History, POLITICAL SCIENCE / NGOs (Non-Governmental Organizations), 20th Century, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, HISTORY / Asia / Japan, General & world history, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, Second World War, Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs), c 1938 to c 1946 (World War Two period), Asian History, General and world history, c 1939 to c 1945 (including WW2), HISTORY / Modern / 20th Century / General, HISTORY / Wars & Conflicts / World War II / Pacific Theater, Pacific Rim countries