8 The Strange Case of the Castaway Princess and Other Stories of Japan in the Pacific

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Dedication v
3. Contents vii
4. Acknowledgments xi
5. Conventions xiii
6. Abbreviations xv
7. Ocean Japan. Enviromental Factors and a New Periodization of Japan's Archipelagic History 1
8. Part I. Terraqueous Connections
9. Framing Essay: How the Sea Comes Ashore 39
10. 1 From Black Ships to Black Smoke: The Lines Out of Karatsu 45
11. 2 An Urbanizing Ocean: Constructions of the Tsushima Strait, 1876–1945 56
12. 3 Mutsu Adrift: A Nuclear Ship, Scallop Growers, and the Inescapable Ecologies of Mutsu Bay 69
13. 4 The Flavor of Rivers: Salmon, Cows, and Tree- Planting Fishers in Eastern Hokkaido, Japan 82
14. Part II Technology
15. Framing Essay: Of Eyes and Ships— Islands at Either End of Asia 97
16. 5 Sailing within Sight of the Land: Technology and Japanese Relationships with the Sea in the Tokugawa Period 103
17. 6 The Legible South Sea of the Imperial Japanese Navy: Measuring Maritime Battlefields from the Unsinkable Destroyer Yukikaze 115
18. 7 The Platform Archipelago: Islands of Technological Adaptation Beyond a Terrestrialized Mindset 133
19. Part III Social Status
20. Framing Essay: Tales Untold 153
21. 8 The Strange Case of the Castaway Princess and Other Stories of Japan in the Pacific 161
22. 9 Turbulence in the Seto Inland Sea: The Kosaka Uprising of 1868 172
23. 10 Bonin Blue: People and Possibility at 27 Degrees North 185
24. Picturing the Pacific 203
25. Part IV Governance
26. Framing Essay: Seeking Stability in Times of Change 217
27. 11 Japan’s Sea of Islands: An Aquapelagic History 223
28. 12 Sampan and Uncle Sam: The Collaboration and Confrontation between Hawai‘i and Washington during the Mid- Twentieth Century over Japanese Sampan Fishing in Hawaiian Waters 239
29. 13 Japanese Pelagic Fisheries and the Enclosure of the North Pacific 252
30. Part V Danger
31. Framing Essay: Tumultuous and Uncanny— Japan’s Ocean as a Danger Zone 267
32. 14 Tsunami Research and Preparedness in the Pacific in the Twentieth Century 277
33. 15 Tetrapods and Eco- Ontologies of Coastal Infrastructure in Japan 291
34. 16 Living with the Ruined Ocean: Stories of Building the Future in Fukushima 303
35. Part VI The Materiality of Water
36. Framing Essay: Japan’s Material Pacific 317
37. 17 Islands of the Kuroshio Frontier or Building the Infrastructure of an Archipelagic Empire 325
38. 18 Japan’s Imperial Fisheries: Migration and Tuna Frontiers in the Indo- Pacific 340
39. 19 Becoming Kai- Lingual: Shellfish Sensors, Oceanic Traces, and the Interpretation of Submerged Histories in Ago Bay 354
40. Afterword. Three Views of Oceanic Japan 369
41. Contributors 383
42. Index 393