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Memories of post-imperial nations : the aftermath of decolonization, 1945-2013
\"Brings together the varying perspectives with historians attempting to bind memory and its experience of different post-imperial nations -- Britain, Netherlands, France, Belgium, Italy, Portugal and Japan\"--Provided by publisher.
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Empire of Dogs
In 1924, Professor Ueno Eizaburo of Tokyo Imperial
University adopted an Akita puppy he named Hachiko. Each
evening Hachiko greeted Ueno on his return to Shibuya Station. In
May 1925 Ueno died while giving a lecture. Every day for over nine
years the Akita waited at Shibuya Station, eventually becoming
nationally and even internationally famous for his purported
loyalty. A year before his death in 1935, the city of Tokyo erected
a statue of Hachiko outside the station. The story of Hachiko
reveals much about the place of dogs in Japan's cultural
imagination.
In the groundbreaking Empire of Dogs , Aaron Herald
Skabelund examines the history and cultural significance of dogs in
nineteenth- and twentieth-century Japan, beginning with the arrival
of Western dog breeds and new modes of dog keeping, which spread
throughout the world with Western imperialism. He highlights how
dogs joined with humans to create the modern imperial world and
how, in turn, imperialism shaped dogs' bodies and their
relationship with humans through its impact on dog-breeding and
dog-keeping practices that pervade much of the world today.
In a book that is both enlightening and entertaining, Skabelund
focuses on actual and metaphorical dogs in a variety of contexts:
the rhetorical pairing of the Western \"colonial dog\" with native
canines; subsequent campaigns against indigenous canines in the
imperial realm; the creation, maintenance, and in some cases
restoration of Japanese dog breeds, including the Shiba Inu; the
mobilization of military dogs, both real and fictional; and the
emergence of Japan as a \"pet superpower\" in the second half of the
twentieth century. Through this provocative account, Skabelund
demonstrates how animals generally and canines specifically have
contributed to the creation of our shared history, and how certain
dogs have subtly influenced how that history is told. Generously
illustrated with both color and black-and-white images, Empire
of Dogs shows that human-canine relations often expose how
people-especially those with power and wealth-use animals to
define, regulate, and enforce political and social boundaries
between themselves and other humans, especially in imperial
contexts.
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Primitive selves
This remarkable book examines the complex history of Japanese colonial and postcolonial interactions with Korea, particularly in matters of cultural policy. E. Taylor Atkins focuses on past and present Japanese fascination with Korean culture as he reassesses colonial anthropology, heritage curation, cultural policy, and Korean performance art in Japanese mass media culture. Atkins challenges the prevailing view that imperial Japan demonstrated contempt for Koreans through suppression of Korean culture. In his analysis, the Japanese preoccupation with Koreana provided the empire with a poignant vision of its own past, now lost--including communal living and social solidarity--which then allowed Japanese to grieve for their former selves. At the same time, the specific objects of Japan's gaze--folk theater, dances, shamanism, music, and material heritage--became emblems of national identity in postcolonial Korea.
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Dominant narratives of colonial Hokkaido and imperial Japan : envisioning the periphery and the modern nation-state
Recasts the commonly dismissed colonial project pursued in Hokkaido during the Meiji era (1868-1912) as a major force in the production of modern Japan's national identity, imperial ideology, and empire.
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Japan's Siberian intervention, 1918-1922 : \a great disobedience against the people\
The fifty months of the Siberian Intervention encompass the existential crisis which affected Japanese at virtually all levels when confronted with the new \"world situation\" left in the wake of the First World War.
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