1st Edition
Prisons and Forced Labour in Japan The Colonization of Hokkaido, 1881-1894
By Pia Jolliffe
Copyright 2019
100 Pages
by
Routledge
100 Pages
2 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
100 Pages
2 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
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Prisons and Forced Labour in Japan examines the local, national and international significance of convict labour during the colonization of Hokkaido between 1881 and 1894 and the building of the Japanese empire. Based on the analysis of archival sources such as prison yearbooks and letters, as well as other eyewitness accounts, this book uses a framework of global prison studies to... Read more
List of illustrations
Technical notes
Acknowledgements
Foreword
Introduction
1 Forced labour and arrest in Edo and Ezo
2 Hokkaido prison island
3 Prisons and rural development, 1881–1886
4 Hard labour as penal servitude, 1886–1894
5 Conclusion
Index
Biography
Pia Maria Jolliffe is a Research and Teaching Associate at the Nissan Institute of Japanese Studies and a Research Fellow at Blackfriars Hall, University of Oxford, UK. She is the author of Learning, Migration and Intergenerational Relations: The Karen and the Gift of Education (2016).
