Introduction: Transpacific Japanese Migration, White American Racism, and Japan’s Adaptive Settler Colonialism

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. List of Illustrations vii
4. Preface and Acknowledgments ix
5. Introduction: Transpacific Japanese Migration, White American Racism, and Japan’s Adaptive Settler Colonialism 1
6. Part One. Imagining a Japanese Pacific, 1884–1907
7. 1. Immigrant Frontiersmen in America and the Origins of Japanese Settler Colonialism 29
8. 2. Vanguard of an Expansive Japan: Knowledge Producers, Frontier Trotters, and Settlement Builders from across the Pacific 54
9. Part Two. Championing Overseas Japanese Development, 1908–1928
10. 3. Transpacific Migrants and the Blurring Boundaries of State and Private Settler Colonialism 93
11. 4. US Immigration Exclusion, Japanese America, and Transmigrants on Japan’s Brazilian Frontiers 125
12. Part Three. Spearheading Japan’s Imperial Settler Colonialism, 1924–1945
13. 5. Japanese California and Its Colonial Diaspora: Translocal Manchuria Connections 153
14. 6. Japanese Hawai‘i and Its Tropical Nexus: Translocal Remigration to Colonial Taiwan and the Nan’yō 183
15. Part Four. History and Futurity in Japan’s Imperial Settler Colonialism, 1932–1945
16. 7. Japanese Pioneers in America and the Making of Expansionist Orthodoxy in Imperial Japan 217
17. 8. The Call of Blood: Japanese American Citizens and the Education of the Empire’s Future “Frontier Fighters” 242
18. Epilogue: The Afterlife of Japanese Settler Colonialism 261
19. Glossary of Japanese Names: Remigrants from the Continental United States and Hawai‘i 269
20. Notes 271
21. Index 339