ABSTRACT

In tandem with the growth and development of the Japanese community and business interests in Shanghai, there was an increasing Japanese police presence there. To the extent that people know of the Japanese in Shanghai in the 1930s and 1940s, they understand them to be a group closely self-protective and dependent on the home government and military for its security. Japanese-operated shops were principally on Wusong Road and Wenjianshi Road. The judicial police handled crimes committed within the Japanese community. The peace preservation police dealt with a variety oflocal health and welfare issues. As the years passed, Uchiyama thus became a mediator of sorts between Chinese and visiting Japanese authors, and his bookstore became a "salon" for brokering Sino-Japanese literary contacts. A number of Japanese students became deeply sympathetic to the Chinese labor movement in Shanghai, where they may have witnessed the May 30 Incident, Chinese workers' demonstrations, or organized activities of the young Chinese Communist Party.