Introduction / Japan's Wartime Empire: Problems and Issues

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Preface ix
4. Introduction / Japan's Wartime Empire: Problems and Issues xi
5. PART I: Japan's Wartime Empire and the Formal Colonies
6. Chapter 1 / Total War, Industrialization, and Social Change in Late Colonial Korea 1
7. Chapter 2 / The Kominka Movement in Taiwan and Korea: Comparisons and Interpretations 40
8. PART II: Japan's Wartime Empire and Northeast Asia
9. Chapter 3 / Imagined Empire: The Cultural Construction of Manchukuo 71
10. Chapter 4 / Managing Occupied Manchuria, 1931-1934. 97
11. Chapter 5 / Creating a Modern Enclave Economy: The Economic Integration of Japan, Manchuria, and North China, 1932-1945. 136
12. Chapter 6 / The Yen Bloc, 1931-1941 171
13. PART III: Japan's Wartime Empire and Southeast Asia
14. Chapter 7 / Nanshin: The "Southward Advance," 1931-1941, as a Prelude to the Japanese Occupation of Southeast Asia 189
15. Chapter 8 / Anomaly or Model? Independent Thailand's Role in Japan's Asian Strategy, 1941-1943. 243
16. Chapter 9 / Cooperation, Submission, and Resistance of Indigenous Elites of Southeast Asia in the Wartime Empire. 274
17. PART IV: Japan's Wartime Empire in Other Perspectives
18. Chapter 10 / The "Comfort Women." 305
19. Chapter 11 / The Postwar Economic Legacy of Japan's Wartime Empire 324
20. Chapter 12 / Reflections on the Japanese and German Empires of World War II. 335
21. Contributors 363
22. Index 367
23. About the Editors 377