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The Remains of the Japanese Empire: Tsushima Yūko's All Too Barbarian; Reed Boat, Flying; and Wildcat Dome

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 March 2025

Peichen Wu  and
Michael Bourdaghs
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Abstract

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This article focuses on three of Tsushima Yūko's later works. It examines Tsushima's criticism of Japanese ruling policy, especially aboriginal policies in colonial Taiwan, in All Too Barbarian. The second, Reed Boat, Flying, exposes the repressed history of how, just after Japan's defeat in the Second World War, Japanese women returning from Manchuria who were raped by Russian or other foreign soldiers were forced into having abortions. Wildcat Dome, written after the 3.11 disasters, discloses how the inter-racial children born between Japanese women and American soldiers were discriminated against in postwar Japan.

Keywords

Tsushima YūkoTaiwannuclear testingdiscriminationJapanese literatureAll Too BarbarianReed BoatFlyingWildcat Dome
Type
Research Article
Information
Asia-Pacific Journal , Volume 16 , Issue 12 , June 2018 , e7
Copyright
Copyright © The Authors 2018

References

Notes

1 See Kawamura Minato, ed., Tsushima Yūko (Tokyo: Kanae Shobō, 2015).

2 Katsumata Hiroshi, “Shohyō Nara repōto Tsushima Yūko: Furumonogatari no sosei boshi jojō no hishō,” Bungakukai 58:12 (December 2004): 348-350.

3 See Wu Peichen, “Yuanshi mushishehui de huanxiang: Wu Peichen lun Tsushima Yūko wenxue de yuansheng yuzhou,” Yinke wenxuezhi (February, 2011): 32-37.

4 Tsushima Yūko, “Amari ni yaban na ni tsuite,” in Tarumi Chie et al, eds., Taiwan bunka hyōshō no genzai (Nagoya: Arumu, 2010), 8-9.

5 Tsushima Yūko, “Watashi no yamaneko tachi,” Hon (June 2013): 9.

6 Tsushima Yūko, Yamaneko dōmu (Tokyo: Kōdansha, 2013), 94.

7 Tsushima, Yamaneko dōmu, 64.

8 Tsushima, Yamaneko dōmu, 9.

9 Tsushima Yūko, Yamaneko dōmu, 331.

10 See Karube Tadashi's interview with Tsushima Yūko, “Kikite Karube Tadashi Yamaneko dōmu: kakusareta ‘sengo’ o tadorinaosu,” Gunzō (July 2013): 182.

11 See Nakamata Akio's interview with Tsushima Yūko, “Kikite Nakamata Akio Kono chosha ni aitai: Yamaneko dōmu,” Voice (September 2013): 173.

12 Tsushima, Yamaneko dōmu, 88.

13 Tsushima Yūko, “Watashi no yamaneko-tachi,” Hon (June, 2013): 9.