Description: FREE SHIPPING UK WIDE Japanese Assimilation Policies in Colonial Korea, 1910-1945 by Mark E. Caprio During Japans colonial rule over Korea from 1910 until the end of World War II, Japan adopted assimilation as its administrative policy but was unable to integrate the Korean people as Japanese. This book traces the history of this policy to determine why Japan failed to attain its stated goals. FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description From the late nineteenth century, Japan sought to incorporate the Korean Peninsula into its expanding empire. Japan took control of Korea in 1910 and ruled it until the end of World War II. During this colonial period, Japan advertised as a national goal the assimilation of Koreans into the Japanese state. It never achieved that goal. Mark Caprio here examines why Japans assimilation efforts failed. Utilizing government documents, personal travel accounts, diaries, newspapers, and works of fiction, he uncovers plenty of evidence for the potential for assimilation but very few practical initiatives to implement the policy.Japans early history of colonial rule included tactics used with peoples such as the Ainu and Ryukyuan that tended more toward obliterating those cultures than to incorporating the people as equal Japanese citizens. Following the annexation of Taiwan in 1895, Japanese policymakers turned to European imperialist models, especially those of France and England, in developing strengthening its plan for assimilation policies. But, although Japanese used rhetoric that embraced assimilation, Japanese people themselves, from the top levels of government down, considered Koreans inferior and gave them few political rights. Segregation was built into everyday life. Japanese maintained separate communities in Korea, children were schooled in two separate and unequal systems, there was relatively limited intermarriage, and prejudice was ingrained. Under these circumstances, many Koreans resisted assimilation. By not actively promoting Korean-Japanese integration on the ground, Japans rhetoric of assimilation remained just that. Notes The reasons for the failure of the Japanese to fully assimilate the Korean people during its colonial rule Author Biography Mark E. Caprio is a professor in the Department of Intercultural Communications, Rikkyo University, Tokyo. Table of Contents AcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Colonial Administration Decisions1. Western Assimilation Practices2. Japans Development of Internal and Peripheral Assimilation3. Forming Korean Assimilation Policy4. Post-March First Policy Reform and Assimilation5. Radical Assimilation under Wartime Conditions6. Korean Critiques of Japanese Assimilation PolicyConclusion: Evaluating Peripheral ColonizationNotes Glossary Bibliography Index Review "The significance of addressing Japanese colonial rule in Korea in a broader comparative context cannot be exaggerated. Caprio had made a perceptive, innovative, and welcome contribution to expanding the scope of Japanese, Korean, and colonial studies." -- Marie Seong-Hak Kim * Journal of Japanese Studies *"His main purpose is to show, first how the colonial rulers of Korea tried to manage the Korean population with political, social, cultural, and linguistic approaches filled with enormous internal contradictions and sophistry. His second purpose is to show how segments of Korean society collaborated with Japanese designs. . . . Caprio has fleshed out the theme of assimilation with rich detail and nuance and thrown a fresh light on the complex nature of Japanese rule in Korea and its limitations. . ." * American Historical Review *"Mark Caprios Japanese Assimilation Policies in Colonial Korea is an illuminating account…. The crux of Caprios work is that Japan, like other colonial regimes, made hollow promises related to assimilation for rhetorical ends rather than as a political or social goal…. Japanese Assimilation Policies in Colonial Korea makes a twofold contribution to Korean and Japanese studies, as well as the more general field of colonial studies by first providing the global context for Japans colonization of Korea and, second, examining the debate among Japanese in the public sphere regarding the assimilation of Korea. It is a worthwhile and quick read that I highly recommend." * Korean Studies *"Mark Caprios recent book is a wonderful addition to the field of Korean and Japanese modern history. Its appearance is particularly timely as Japan and Korea ponder the meaning of the centennial anniversary of the 1910 annexation." * The Journal of Asian Studies *"For many years, the Japanese Empire remained hidden behind an island-centered story of the archipelagos modernization and a Euro-centric bias in colonial studies. This can no longer be the case with the publication of Mark E. Caprios new book." * Pacific Affairs *"Caprio argues that, despite the Japanese championing of full acceptance and equality of the Korean people as subjects of the Empire, Japanese policies towards the Koreans worked as contradictory roadblocks preventing complete assimilation. . . . Caprio examines his historical question through an intricate framework of definitions of colonization. . . Additionally, his organizational choice of beginning his work with an examination of European influences on Japanese colonial thought is both interesting and appropriate considering Japans desire to emulate the West. . . . Ultimately, Caprio delivers an impressive, solidly researched work that adds a further dimension to the complex historical problem of Japanese expansion. ." * Journal of Military History *"Mark Caprio, as an American scholar of Korean history teaching at Rikkyo University in Tokyo, is uniquely qualified to avoid the nationalistic extremes of the debate over the right and wrong, and the impact, of Japanese colonial rule. Using both Korean and Japanese sources, and an impartial eye, he examines one aspect of the colonial period, Japans official policy of welcoming the Korean people into the Japanese political and cultural community, and he comes up with some startling conclusions." * Monumenta Nipponica * Promotional The reasons for the failure of the Japanese to fully assimilate the Korean people during its colonial rule Review Quote The significance of addressing Japanese colonial rule in Korea in a broader comparative context cannot be exaggerated. Caprio had made a perceptive, innovative, and welcome contribution to expanding the scope of Japanese, Korean, and colonial studies. Promotional "Headline" The reasons for the failure of the Japanese to fully assimilate the Korean people during its colonial rule Details ISBN0295989017 Short Title JAPANESE ASSIMILATION POLICIES Pages 320 Publisher University of Washington Press Language English ISBN-10 0295989017 ISBN-13 9780295989013 Media Book Format Paperback Year 2009 Imprint University of Washington Press Country of Publication United States Illustrations 14 illus. Place of Publication Seattle UK Release Date 2009-10-27 AU Release Date 2009-10-27 NZ Release Date 2009-10-27 US Release Date 2009-10-27 Author Mark E. Caprio Publication Date 2009-10-27 Alternative 9780295989006 DEWEY 325.35209519 Audience Professional & Vocational Series Japanese Assimilation Policies in Colonial Korea, 1910-1945 We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. 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ISBN-13: 9780295989013
Book Title: Japanese Assimilation Policies in Colonial Korea, 1910-1945
Number of Pages: 320 Pages
Language: English
Publication Name: Japanese Assimilation Policies in Colonial Korea, 1910-1945
Publisher: University of Washington Press
Publication Year: 2009
Subject: Social Sciences
Item Height: 229 mm
Item Weight: 476 g
Type: Textbook
Author: Mark E. Caprio
Series: Korean Studies of the Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies
Item Width: 152 mm
Format: Paperback
