ABSTRACT
This chapter investigates colonial prisons located in formerly Japanese-occupied Asian cities, considering how they are remembered as heritage in order to understand how the colonial past remains influential in the present. It seeks to understand how the three prison museum sites have formed particularly Asian perspectives on dealing with colonial heritage sites and whether this Asian phenomenon helps us to understand Asia either as one unit or several sub-units, in line with the overarching questions of this volume. The authors turn to Japan's efforts to import from the West a body of reformist thinking on prison design and penology, and examine how Japan adopted the Western penal system, and implanted it in its colony of Korea for the purpose of colonisation. The chapter consider how accidental heritage has been made, contested, and re-made at the LRJP.
