Tag: Nan’yo
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The Scientist and the South Seas: Micronesians in the Japanese Imperial Gaze
Introduction by Ruselle Meade, Cardiff University 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 class C mandate over these… Read more