In Search of Our Frontier: Japanese America and Settler Colonialism in the Construction of Japan’s Borderless Empire (Volume 17) (Asia Pacific Modern)

__In Search of Our Frontier__ explores the complex transnational history of Japanese immigrant settler colonialism, which linked Japanese America with Japan’s colonial empire through the exchange of migrant bodies, expansionist ideas, colonial expertise, and capital in the Asia-Pacific basin before World War II. The trajectories of Japanese transpacific migrants exemplified a prevalent national structure of thought and practice that not only functioned to shore up the backbone of Japan’s empire building but also promoted the borderless quest for Japanese overseas development. Eiichiro Azuma offers new interpretive perspectives that will allow readers to understand Japanese settler colonialism’s capacity to operate outside the aegis of the home empire. Cover Dedication In Search of Our Frontier Title Copyright CONTENTS List of Illustrations Preface and Acknowledgments Introduction: Transpacific Japanese Migration, White American Racism, and Japan’s Adaptive Settler Colonialism PART ONE. IMAGINING A JAPANESE PACIFIC, 1884–1907 1. Immigrant Frontiersmen in America and the Origins of Japanese Settler Colonialism 2. Vanguard of an Expansive Japan: Knowledge Producers, Frontier Trotters, and Settlement Builders from across the Pacific PART TWO. CHAMPIONING OVERSEAS JAPANESE DEVELOPMENT, 1908–1928 3. Transpacific Migrants and the Blurring Boundaries of State and Private Settler Colonialism 4. US Immigration Exclusion, Japanese America, and Transmigrants on Japan’s Brazilian Frontiers PART THREE. SPEARHEADING JAPAN’S IMPERIAL SETTLERCOLONIALISM, 1924–1945 5. Japanese California and Its Colonial Diaspora: Translocal Manchuria Connections 6. Japanese Hawai‘i and Its Tropical Nexus: Translocal Remigration to Colonial Taiwan and the Nan’yō PART FOUR. HISTORY AND FUTURITY IN JAPAN’S IMPERIAL SETTLERCOLONIALISM, 1932–1945 7. Japanese Pioneers in America and the Making of Expansionist Orthodoxy in Imperial Japan 8. The Call of Blood: Japanese American Citizens and the Education of the Empire’s Future “Frontier Fighters” Epilogue: The Afterlife of Japanese Settler Colonialism Glossary of Japanese Names: Remigrants from the Continental United States and Hawai‘i Notes Index "In Search of Our Frontier explores the complex transpacific history of Japanese settler colonialism, which linked Japanese America with imperial Japan through the exchange of migrant bodies, expansionist knowledge, colonial capital, and developmental technology in the Asia-Pacific basin. By focusing on residents of and remigrants from Japanese America as a vital link between migration-led expansionism within and outside of Japan's formal empire, this book offers new interpretive frames and perspectives that will allow us to understand the capacity of Japanese settler colonialism to operate outside the aegis of the home empire--or under the sovereign domination of another empire--for the shared goal of 'overseas racial development' and the construction of a 'Japanese Pacific' vis-à-vis a US-led 'white Pacific'"--Provided by publisher In Search of Our Frontier explores the complex transnational history of Japanese immigrant settler colonialism, which linked Japanese America with Japan’s colonial empire through the exchange of migrant bodies, expansionist ideas, colonial expertise, and capital in the Asia-Pacific basin before World War II. The trajectories of Japanese transpacific migrants exemplified a prevalent national structure of thought and practice that not only functioned to shore up the backbone of Japan’s empire building but also promoted the borderless quest for Japanese overseas development. Eiichiro Azuma offers new interpretive perspectives that will allow readers to understand Japanese settler colonialism’s capacity to operate outside the aegis of the home empire.