This is not interesting or new information for those who’ve been doing dissertation research in Japan. But there is an incredible amount of previous studies on almost any issue on East Asian history here. While I was in the US, I wished I had had more access to Japanese journals for that reason, but the [...]
The Japanese librarian of my university sometimes asks me to take a look at the catalogues that she receives from Japanese publishers, and to pick the stuff I need for my research. She does this because she knows that I am working on colonialism and youth mobilization. I cannot exaggerate how much I love this [...]
The main ‘research’ part of my paper looked at 12 issues of the journal 台湾教育 (Taiwan Kyōiku), published in 1940. The year 1940 was chosen out of a mere technical problem of accessibility to the materials – the Library of Congress only holds thirteen issues; one from 1928 and twelve from 1940. I wanted to [...]
Colonial education is one of the most popular research topics especially in Taiwanese academia, and I am afraid that I am very ignorant of the major literature in Taiwan. I will post a part of my term paper on colonial education in two parts here shamelessly even though this is not one of my proudest [...]
I have finished my first draft on this topic, and I think the bibliography might be useful to others as well.
Official Documents
I used the Japanese government’s (the Government General in Korea and Chosengun) documents mostly as primary sources.
Chōsengun, Chōsenjin Shiganhei Seido ni Kansuru Iken (The Opinions Concerning the Korean Volunteer System), June 1937, available at: [...]
I have posted some of the findings on school strikes during Kominka at Frog in a Well -Korea (here). This is actually a part of one of my papers. I could not spend too much time on this one, but it always feels like the richness of the historical documents can somehow compensate my lack [...]
Sorry for the long interval. I had to submit a proposal on this topic and my blogging could not catch up with my research.
I was going to blog about some interesting stuff I found in the primary sources. I was reading monthly Japanese High Police reports (特高月報, 特高外事月報) between 1936-1938 on domestic affairs to see [...]
As I indicated in the previous posting, I read 宮田節子「朝鮮民衆と皇民化政策」and Brandon Palmer’s dissertation “Japan’s mobilization of Koreans for war, 1937-1945″ as a starter. Miyata Setsuko looks at similar sources (高等外事月報, 朝鮮思想運動 etc) and analyzes the reaction of Korean people to the 1937 Sino-Japanese war, the volunteer soldier system, and the conscription policy. Palmer also gives [...]
I don’t know if any of the audience of this blog is interested in my research paper topics, but since this is about time for final papers, I want to show step-by-step evolution of my thoughts and research, here. I usually write down my thoughts and wonders on scrap paper, and try to explain my [...]
I have shown some differences between Taiwan and South Korea in their conscription policies in my previous postings. I asked the professors that I met why there are such differences. The summary of their and my speculations is as follows.1. The influence of the authoritarian regime of the past in Korea (pointed out by a Korean [...]