Comments on: ASPAC Blogging: Colonialism and Imperialism

By: Jonathan Dresner

Jonathan Dresner — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 05:01:47 +0000

I definitely see Hokkaido as one of the first frontiers in Japan’s imperialistic expansion (the other, of course, is Okinawa). There’s a fair bit of scholarship now which puts it in that context, especially the work of David Howell and Brett Walker.

By: dosanko

dosanko — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 15:53:03 +0000

I’m glad to see more attention paid to Hokkaido’s place in Japanese imperialism and colonialism. Too many of the central English-language texts on Japanese colonialism slight the northern frontier. What might be more important about Makabe’s work both that these intellectuals subscribed to a universalizing philosophy wrapped in imperialism, and that they all lived in Hokkaido during its formative colonial period.

By: okinawa

okinawa — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 04:02:22 +0000

Okinawan history has been a rocky road…