ABSTRACT
This book provides an interdisciplinary study about the migration of approximately 9 million people who became end of empire migrants in East Asia following the collapse of the Japanese Empire in 1945.
Through the collection of first-hand testimonies and examination of four key themes, the book uncovers how the Japanese government’s repatriation policy intersected with people’s experiences of end of empire migration in East Asia. The first theme, repatriation as historiography and discourse, examines how repatriation has been studied, debated and represented in Japan since the end of the Second World War. The second theme, finding home in the former empire, reveals the diversity of experiences of the peoples of former colonies as the borders ‘shifted under their feet’ through first-hand testimony. The third theme, government policy, explores the changing Japanese government policy from the 1950s to the 1970s. The fourth theme, integration after repatriation, reveals how Japanese former colonial residents integrated into Japanese society following repatriation.
Presenting the collective research of 14 international authors, this book will be of interest for researchers of East Asian history, modern Japanese history, migration studies, postcolonial studies, Japanese studies, Korean studies, post-war international relations and Cold War history.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|57 pages
Repatriation in historiography, political discourse and the history of Indigenous Peoples
chapter 1|17 pages
Japanese-language historiography about end of empire migration
chapter 3|17 pages
Travel, forced movement, ‘repatriation’
part II|68 pages
Finding ‘home’ in the former Japanese Empire
chapter 4|15 pages
The ‘repatriation’ of Japanese wives from Manchuria to Taiwan
chapter 5|17 pages
The social movement for Sakhalin Korean repatriation after the Second World War
part III|52 pages
Repatriation policy and returning home in the 1950s–1960s
chapter 8|14 pages
The boundary formation between ‘hikiage’ and ‘kikoku’
chapter 10|17 pages
The ‘delayed “repatriation”’ of Japanese women in Korea
part IV|81 pages
Repatriation and integration: life after hikiage