TY - JOUR
T1 - Fragmented geographies
T2 - Tada Fumio and the Japanese empire in Manchuria, Mengjiang and Korea
AU - Winstanley-Chesters, Robert
AU - Cathcart, Adam
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The authors wish to thank in particular the various anonymous peer reviewers of this paper for their energy, time and very useful comments and suggestions, as well as to the Editors of this journal also for their time, patience and commitment to this paper. The authors also wish to thank our incredibly industrious research assistant in Tokyo and Seoul, Mr Ho June Jung, and to Professor Mark Caprio of Rikkyo University for suggesting him. The authors also wish to thank previous, equally industrious research assistants in Seoul, Miss Kim Yulli and Miss Jinyoung Jung, both of Seoul National University and in their case, Dr Farrah Sheikh, then of Konkuk University now of Keimyung University again for putting in us in touch with them. Thanks to the archivists at Komazawa University's Museum of Zen Culture and History, Professor Shoko Mizuno at Komazawa University and the library team at Komazawa University, the library team at the Academy of Korean Studies Library, and at Seoul National University and the archivists at the Jangseogak Archive at the Academy of Korean Studies. Funding for this research was provided by Academy of Korean Studies , Small Research Grants , No's AKS-2020-R66 (2020/2021) and AKS-2022-R093 (2022/2023) and at the University of Edinburgh by the Core Program for Korean Studies through the Ministry of Education of the Republic of Korea and Korean Studies Promotion Service of the Academy of Korean Studies ( AKS-2022-OLU-225003 ).
Funding Information:
The authors wish to thank in particular the various anonymous peer reviewers of this paper for their energy, time and very useful comments and suggestions, as well as to the Editors of this journal also for their time, patience and commitment to this paper. The authors also wish to thank our incredibly industrious research assistant in Tokyo and Seoul, Mr Ho June Jung, and to Professor Mark Caprio of Rikkyo University for suggesting him. The authors also wish to thank previous, equally industrious research assistants in Seoul, Miss Kim Yulli and Miss Jinyoung Jung, both of Seoul National University and in their case, Dr Farrah Sheikh, then of Konkuk University now of Keimyung University again for putting in us in touch with them. Thanks to the archivists at Komazawa University's Museum of Zen Culture and History, Professor Shoko Mizuno at Komazawa University and the library team at Komazawa University, the library team at the Academy of Korean Studies Library, and at Seoul National University and the archivists at the Jangseogak Archive at the Academy of Korean Studies. Funding for this research was provided by Academy of Korean Studies, Small Research Grants, No's AKS-2020-R66 (2020/2021) and AKS-2022-R093 (2022/2023) and at the University of Edinburgh by the Core Program for Korean Studies through the Ministry of Education of the Republic of Korea and Korean Studies Promotion Service of the Academy of Korean Studies (AKS-2022-OLU-225003).
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PY - 2024/3
Y1 - 2024/3
N2 - 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.
AB - 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.
KW - Tada Fumio
KW - geography education in the Japanese empire and colonial Korea
KW - geopolitics
KW - transnational fascism
KW - Germany-Japan relations
KW - Keijo imperial university
U2 - 10.1016/j.jhg.2023.10.002
DO - 10.1016/j.jhg.2023.10.002
M3 - Article
SN - 0305-7488
VL - 83
SP - 23
EP - 35
JO - Journal of Historical Geography
JF - Journal of Historical Geography
ER -