Tag: indigenous peoples
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The Scientist and the South Seas: Micronesians in the Japanese Imperial Gaze
Introduction by Ruselle Meade, Cardiff University. Published on January 8, 2025. In 1914, shortly after the outbreak of World War I, Japan seized Germany’s territories in the North Pacific, having invoked its formal alliance with the British to combat what it deemed “German piratical activity” in the region. When hostilities ended, Japan was granted a… Read more
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Fushine Kōzō’s speech in the Human Pavilion
Introduction by Kirsten L. Ziomek, Adelphi University, New York. Published on June 14, 2021. When we try to understand Japanese imperialism and think about what life was like for people living under Japanese imperial rule it is easy to imagine the Japanese empire at the height of its expansion and power. And it is harder… Read more
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Kondō the Barbarian and Taiwan’s Indigenous Peoples
Taiwan was annexed as a condition of the Treaty of Shimonoseki signed by the Qing and Japanese imperial governments on April 17, 1895. From the 1895 annexation through 1902, Han (Chinese) Taiwanese rebels fought sustained guerrilla campaigns against the new Japanese government in the western half of the island. Eastern Taiwan, including the island’s majestic… Read more