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Author: sayaka

Colonial/Journals/Korea/Korea-Japan

자료소개: Chōsen chihō gyōsei (朝鮮地方行政)

Posted on January 14, 2012 by sayaka / 2 Comments

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...

Colonial/General/Historiography/Korea

Some Issues on Modern Education in Korea

Posted on November 9, 2011 by sayaka / 1 Comment

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 ...

China/China-Japan/English/Taiwan

From Hirohito to Chiang Kai-shek

Posted on June 23, 2011 by sayaka / 4 Comments

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 ...

Anecdotes/China-Japan/Colonial Taiwan/Japanese

From Hirohito to Chiang Kai-shek

Posted on June 23, 2011 by sayaka / 4 Comments

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...

Archives/bibliography/Guides/Libraries/Okinawa

Collecting Local Materials in Okinawa

Posted on May 12, 2011 by sayaka / 3 Comments

It seems there is increasing attention to Okinawan history recently. Okinawa is such an obviously interesting place for its own rich cultures, languages, custom...

Archives/bibliography/Guides/Libraries

Collecting Local Materials in Miyagi

Posted on April 17, 2011 by sayaka / 2 Comments

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...

Economic/Propaganda/昭和

When desperate to stabilize the currency

Posted on December 17, 2010 by sayaka / 2 Comments

I encountered these pages when I was flipping through a thick, unsorted bunch of materials regarding the industrial campaigns that the youth associations conduc...

Nationalism/Teaching/大正/昭和

Teachers and National Ideologies

Posted on November 23, 2010 by sayaka / 3 Comments

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...

Colonial/General/Korea/Korea-Japan

The Use of Collective Responsibility

Posted on September 19, 2010 by sayaka / 2 Comments

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 ...

General

Goto Shimpei’s Meta Theory on Modern Empire

Posted on September 7, 2010 by sayaka / 0 Comment

I feel that, from what I have read so far, Goto Shimpei is everyone’s favorite colonial policy-maker. He learned ‘scientific’ colonial governa...

Gender/Korea-Japan

Thinking about the Japanese woman in Korean-Japanese (内鮮一体) couples

Posted on June 17, 2010 by sayaka / 0 Comment

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

Colonial/Cultural/Gender/General/Korea/Korean

Thinking about the Japanese woman in Korean-Japanese (内鮮一体) couples

Posted on June 13, 2010 by sayaka / 5 Comments

When I was preparing for my oral exams last semester, the professors who do not work on East Asia (I had a European historian and a Latin American historian in ...

Colonial/Korea/Korea-Japan/Korean

Non-Orientalizing Colonial Ethnography

Posted on April 3, 2010 by sayaka / 5 Comments

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...

Books and Articles/Colonial/Korea

Japanese Publications on Colonial Bureaucracy

Posted on August 13, 2009 by sayaka / 1 Comment

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...

Colonial/Film/Historiography/Korea/Korea-Japan/Military/World

Modernization or Japanization? –The Movie “Homeless Angels” 1941

Posted on July 20, 2008 by sayaka / 0 Comment

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...

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