The Making of Japanese Settler Colonialism: Malthusianism and Trans-Pacific Migration, 1868–1961

Sidney Xu Lu

doi:10.1017/9781108687584

The Making of Japanese Settler Colonialism

Malthusianism and Trans-Pacific Migration, 1868–1961

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Sidney Xu Lu, Michigan State University

Publisher:: Cambridge University Press
Online publication date:: July 2019
Print publication year:: 2019
Online ISBN:: 9781108687584
DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108687584
Creative Commons:: This content is Open Access and distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution licence CC-BY-NC 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/creativelicenses

Subjects:: East Asian History, Area Studies, Asian Studies, History, Global History

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This innovative study demonstrates how Japanese empire-builders invented and appropriated the discourse of overpopulation to justify Japanese settler colonialism across the Pacific. Lu defines this overpopulation discourse as 'Malthusian expansionism'. This was a set of ideas that demanded additional land abroad to accommodate the supposed surplus people in domestic society on the one hand and emphasized the necessity of national population growth on the other. Lu delineates ideological ties, human connections and institutional continuities between Japanese colonial migration in Asia and Japanese migration to Hawaii and North and South America from 1868 to 1961. He further places Malthusian expansionism at the center of the logic of modern settler colonialism, challenging the conceptual division between migration and settler colonialism in global history. This title is also available as Open Access.

‘Brilliantly researched and conceptually sophisticated, this book offers a new interpretation of Malthusianism and will have a huge impact on the way we think about Japanese migration while complicating the divide between studies of the Japanese empire and Japanese immigration to the US, Hawaii, Latin America and other locations in Asia-Pacific.'

Takashi Fujitani - University of Toronto

‘The Making of Japanese Settler Colonialism offers a bold new synthesis of the histories of Japanese imperialism and diaspora. It shows vividly how Japanese ideologues from the late nineteenth century straight through until after World War II were driven by anxieties about overpopulation and by the ideology of race competition.'

Jordan Sand - Georgetown University, Washington DC

‘Sidney Lu’s wonderful new book delves into the history of Japanese migration and its relation to the quest for power on the world stage. It’s the story of a nation’s fixation with overpopulation: how Malthusianism gained traction in the 1860s and why it flamed out in the 1950s. This is an important addition to the literature on Japanese empire and settler colonialism.’

Louise Young - University of Wisconsin, Madison

‘Lu (Michigan State Univ.) presents a well-written, innovative study of how Japanese empire builders invented and promoted the discourse of overpopulation to justify Japanese settler colonialism across the Pacific between the early Meiji and post-WW II periods … Including stories from Japanese who participated in this movement to the far corners of the Pacific Rim, this book is highly recommended for anyone interested in modern Japanese history and transnational colonialism.’

M. D. Ericson Source: Choice

‘I recommend without reserve to scholars and students of Japanese imperial expansionism and trans-Pacific migration, as well as any reader interested in the history and policies of modern Japan.’

Hugues Canuel Source: Global Maritime History

‘As Lu’s erudite book reveals, the shift in colonial imaginations expressed in the characters offers a distinctively Japanese inflection to theoretical understandings of colonial migration-one that is best understood in its transpacific manifestations.’

Martin Dusinberre Source: Project Muse

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The Making of Japanese Settler Colonialism

Malthusianism and Trans-Pacific Migration, 1868–1961

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The Making of Japanese Settler Colonialism
pp i-i

Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University - Series page
pp ii-ii

The Making of Japanese Settler Colonialism - Title page
pp iii-iii

Copyright page
pp iv-iv

Dedication
pp v-vi

Contents
pp vii-viii

Illustrations
pp ix-x

Acknowledgments
pp xi-xiii

Note on Names, Terms, and Translations
pp xiv-xiv

Additional material
pp xv-xvi

Introduction
pp 1-36

Part I - Emergence, 1868–1894
pp 37-98

Chapter 1 - From Hokkaido to California: The Birth of Malthusian Expansionism in Modern Japan
pp 39-68

Chapter 2 - Population and Racial Struggle: The South Seas, Hawaiʻi, and Latin America
pp 69-98

Part II - Transformation, 1894–1924
pp 99-180

Chapter 3 - Commoners of Empire: Labor Migration to the United States
pp 101-125

Chapter 4 - Farming Rice in Texas: The Paradigm Shift
pp 126-148

Chapter 5 - “Carrying the White Man’s Burden”: The Rise of Farmer Migration to Brazil
pp 149-180

Part III - Culmination, 1924–1945
pp 181-234

Chapter 6 - Making the Migration State: Malthusian Expansionism and Agrarianism
pp 183-205

Chapter 7 - The Illusion of Coexistence and Coprosperity: Settler Colonialism in Brazil and Manchuria
pp 206-234

Part IV - Resurgence, 1945–1961
pp 235-262

Chapter 8 - The Birth of a “Small” Japan: Postwar Migration to South America
pp 237-262

Conclusion
pp 263-274

Bibliography
pp 275-294

Index
pp 295-310

Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University - Series page
pp 311-314

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