Article ID: CBB115301721

Fragmented geographies: Tada Fumio and the Japanese empire in Manchuria, Mengjiang and Korea (2024)

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This paper explores the placement and function of the discipline of geography in the expansion of the Japanese empire, doing so through the prism of the work and field research of Tada Fumio, a leading geographer in Japan both before and after 1945. This examination of this aspect of Tada Fumio's career and its interweaving with the construction and consolidation of Japan's empire will broaden recent studies of imperial Japan's simultaneous encounter with geopolitics and fascism while engaging with Japan's developing ideas about geography as a political and cultural discipline. This paper demonstrates the importance of the entwined histories of Japanese and German geographers in the Japanese empire, as well as documenting Tada Fumio's activities in Manchuria (northeast China) and on the Korean peninsula. Finally, the paper reveals fissures in the historical record of Japanese geographers in continental Asia and, until such time as more subaltern voices can be found, seeks to lay down the foundation for further research on the study of geography in the Japanese empire.

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Authors & Contributors
Choi, Eun Kyung
Hong, Sungook
Kim, Hoi-Eun
Kim, Sonja
Lee, Jung
Lee, Young-Ah
Journals
Korean Journal of Medical History
East Asian Science, Technology and Society: An International Journal
Historia Scientiarum: International Journal of the History of Science Society of Japan
Journal of Asian Studies
Technology and Culture
Publishers
Harvard University Asia Center
Routledge
University of Michigan Press
Concepts
Japan, colonies
Colonialism
Public health
Tuberculosis
East Asia, civilization and culture
Imperialism
People
Foucault, Michel
Ratzel, Friedrich
Seok, Joo-myung
Yasuma, Takata
Masamichi, Rōyama
Jōji, Ezawa
Time Periods
20th century, early
19th century
Qing dynasty (China, 1644-1912)
Places
Korea
China
Manchuria
Japan
Taiwan
Germany
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