Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Contributors xi
4. Acknowledgments xiii
5. Note on Japanese Names xv
6. Introduction 1
7. Chapter One
8. The Shores of the Sorachi River 21
9. Writing Ainu Out/Writing Japanese In: The “Nature” of Japanese Colonialism in Hokkaido 33
10. Chapter Two
11. Hokkaido Former Natives Protection Law (Law No. 27, March 1, 1899) 57
12. Rule in the Name of “Protection”: The Vocabulary of Colonialism 60
13. Chapter Three
14. Officer Ukuma 79
15. Subaltern Identity in Okinawa 90
16. Chapter Four
17. Demon Bird 111
18. Violence, Borders, Identity: An Ethnographic Narrative Set in Colonial Taiwan 124
19. Chapter Five
20. The Manual of Home Cuisine 143
21. Eating for the Emperor: The Nationalization of Settler Homes and Bodies in the Kōminka Era 159
22. Chapter Six
23. Wolf Forest, Basket Forest, and Thief Forest 181
24. A Little Story of Settler Colonialism: Imperialist Consciousness and Children’s Literature in the 1920s 188
25. Chapter Seven
26. Manchu Girl 211
27. Imperializing Motherhood: The Education of a “Manchu Girl” in Colonial Manchuria 225
28. Chapter Eight
29. The Adventures of Dankichi 245
30. Popular Orientalism and Japanese Views of Asia 271
31. Index 299