자료소개: Chōsen chihō gyōsei (朝鮮地方行政)
I would like to quickly introduce one source from the colonial period, a journal called Chōsen chihō gyōsei, or Korean Local Administration. It was published mo...
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Some Issues on Modern Education in Korea
Education is always an important issue in history, and I regret that I have read works on the history of Korea’s modern education only sporadically. As I ...
From Hirohito to Chiang Kai-shek
I posted this on Frog in a Well Japan. — Earlier this month, I met a descendent of the Taiwanese aboriginal group, Sysiyat tribe (賽夏族), and his wife. The ...
From Hirohito to Chiang Kai-shek
Earlier this month, I met a descendent of the Taiwanese aboriginal group, Sysiyat tribe (賽夏族), and his wife. The Sysiyat is a relatively small tribe living in W...
Collecting Local Materials in Okinawa
It seems there is increasing attention to Okinawan history recently. Okinawa is such an obviously interesting place for its own rich cultures, languages, custom...
Collecting Local Materials in Miyagi
To express my deep gratitude to those who helped my research in Miyagi this summer, and to encourage more researchers to explore sources in Tohoku when things r...
When desperate to stabilize the currency
I encountered these pages when I was flipping through a thick, unsorted bunch of materials regarding the industrial campaigns that the youth associations conduc...
Teachers and National Ideologies
I have been collecting and reading various materials that could potentially reveal how people lived in rural villages between the 1910s and 1940s. Village teach...
The Use of Collective Responsibility
It is a famous fact that the Government-General in Taiwan adopted the baojia (保甲) system in 1898 in reaction to a series of attacks against the Japanese. It is ...
Goto Shimpei’s Meta Theory on Modern Empire
I feel that, from what I have read so far, Goto Shimpei is everyone’s favorite colonial policy-maker. He learned ‘scientific’ colonial governa...
Thinking about the Japanese woman in Korean-Japanese (内鮮一体) couples
I posted an entry at Frog in a Well Korea that might interest the reader of the Japan blog. Thinking about the Japanese woman in Korean-Japanese (内鮮一体) couples
Non-Orientalizing Colonial Ethnography
I am re-visiting reprints of a journal called Korean Social Work (『朝鮮社会事業』), which colonial bureaucrats and social reformers in Korea published nearly every mon...
Japanese Publications on Colonial Bureaucracy
I would like to introduce two recent publications on colonial bureaucrats here. One is Okamoto Makiko, Shokuminchi kanryô no seijishi (岡本真希子『植民地官僚の政治史：朝鮮・台湾総督府と...
Modernization or Japanization? –The Movie “Homeless Angels” 1941
I had a chance to watch a Korean movie from the colonial period, called “Homeless Angels (집없는 천사, 家なき天使),” at the Korean Film Archive (KFA) in Susek...