Nation-Empire: Ideology and Rural Youth Mobilization in Japan and Its Colonies

by Sayaka Chatani

By the end of World War II, hundreds of thousands of young men in the Japanese colonies, in particular Taiwan and Korea, had expressed their loyalty to the empire by volunteering to join the army. Why and how did so many colonial youth become passionate supporters of Japanese imperial nationalism? And what happened to these youth after the war? Nation-Empire investigates these questions by examining the long-term mobilization of youth...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1501730754
• ISBN13: 9781501730757
• Release Date: December 2018
• Publisher: Cornell University Press
• Length: 366 Pages
• Weight: 1.51 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.0"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher