1st Edition
Memories of the Japanese Empire Comparison of the Colonial and Decolonisation Experiences in Taiwan and Nan’yo-gunto
Introduction (Yuko MIO) PART I Recognition of the Japanese Colonial Era 1. The ‘Japanisation’ of the Taiwanese Lifeworld during and after the Colonial Period: With Reference to Nan’yō Guntō (Hiroko UENO) 2. The Realities of Palauan Colonial Experiences (Maki MITA) 3. Multi-layered ‘Colonial Experience’: Collisions, Contacts, and Re-encounters of the Bunun with ‘Japan’ (Naoki ISHIGAKI) PART II Living after the War 4. The ‘Crossover Generation’: Residents of Taiwan’s East Coast under Multi-layered Foreign Rule (Kazuyuki NISHIMURA) 5. Christian Nursing Care for the Japanese-speaking Elderly in Taiwan: Analysis of the Official Newsletters of Gyokulansou (Yohei FUJINO) 6. Palau Sakura Kai: An Association of Palauans of Japanese Ancestry (Shingo IITAKA) PART III Objects and Memories 7. Significance of Heritage in Decolonisation: Taiwanese Colonial Experiences and their Appropriation of Japan’s Imperial-Era Buildings (Hisahiko KAMIZURU) 8. Two Monuments in Majuro Atoll and Economic Development: A Case Study of the East Pacific Monument to the War Dead and the Seion-Kinenhi (Takehiro KUROSAKI) 9. Multi-layered Realms of Memory: A Diachronic Study of the Commemoration of the the Mudanshe Incident in Taiwan (Maoko MIYAOKA)
Biography
Yuko MIO is Professor at Keio University. She specialises in the anthropological study of East Asia, with an emphasis on folk religion, and the social memory of subjects of the Japanese administration in Taiwan. Her publications include Historical Ethnography of Wang Ye Worship: The Dynamics of Han Chinese Folk Belief in Taiwan (in Chinese, 2018), written Introduction to: The 5th JASCA International Symposium ‘The Internationalization/Globalization of Anthropology in East Asia: Taiwan and Japan’ (2019) and ‘Domestication of Colonial and War Experience: A Case Study of a Japanese Deified in Taiwan’, (in Japanese, 2017).
