Chapter Twenty East Asia’s “Melting-Pot”
Reevaluating Race Relations in Japan’s Colonial Empire
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 20068597 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Yukiko Koshiro (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2013 |
| Pages | 475-498 |
| Publication date | 2013-01-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | CHAPTER |
| Venue | Race and racism in modern East Asia (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | Brill (PUBLISHER • NL) |
| DOI | 10.1163/9789004237414_021 |
| OpenAlex | W2314359869 |
| ISBN | 9789004237414 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
Since the nineteenth century, Western racial ideology, maintaining the inherent superiority of Europeans and their civilization over the rest of the world, has been used to justify the subjugation of other peoples in the name of humanitarian motives. Intermarriage between Japanese women and Spanish and Portuguese traders in western Japan had occurred since the mid-sixteenth century. Japanese individuals did not seem to consider interracial marriage with their colonial subjects damaging to their prestige. After World War I, when the League of Nations awarded Japan the former German colonies in the Marianas, Carolines, Marshall Islands, and Palau, Japan launched an aggressive economic development of the South Sea Mandate. Japan's experience there shows colonial Japan's distinctive racial approach to the tropical climate and the native islanders. The Japanese tolerance of Russians and Russian culture within their colonial empire deserves attention in understanding the peculiar racial rhetoric of their empire. Keywords:colonial intermarriage; Japanese empire; Russian culture
Ancient history · Archaeology · Civilization · Colonialism · Economic history · Empire · Ethnology · Geography · Ideology · Political science · Politics · History · Japanese History and Culture · Law
| Citations per year | 0.22 |
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| Citation span | 2017 - 2025 (9) |
| Highly cited | No |