Japanese Occupation Era Research Articles

The identity of Hakka Food culture from the Kansai area of Hsinchu County in Taiwan since Japanese occupation era to the postwar

The identity of Hakka Food culture from the Kansai area of Hsinchu County in Taiwan since Japanese occupation era to the postwar

Compressed Transformation of Korean Film Industry from Old to New Regime

Abstract Korean film business was constructed during the Japanese Occupation era (1910 1945). Under the situation that Japanese immigrants owned all theaters, Koreans managed to produce local films based on a distinct culture and history. From the Sino-Japanese War (1937) to the end of World War II, Korean local films fell into war propaganda film and were even suspended. From the end of WWII to the Korean War (1950 1953), the base of the Korean film business was almost destroyed. From 1954 to 1973, the Korean film business developed rapidly and was so prosperous that this era was called the South Korean Golden Age. But the establishment of Park Chung-hee's military dictatorship regime (1973) tightened its control of society including the film business. Besides, the nationwide spread of television made Korean film business stagnate from the 1970s to the mid 1980s.

The Logic of Historic Preservation Movement in the Context of Community Formation

The purpose of this paper is to clarify the logic behind the historic preservation movements in Daegu, Korea. There are many Japanese houses in Daegu that were built in the era of Japanese occupation. This paper describes the logic behind a NGO in Daegu, Korea (CSES: Citizen's Solidarity for Ecological Street) that seeks to preserve these houses. The CSES has organized citizen's fieldwork to uncover "lived urban histories" in Daegu. They have found many Japanese houses. CSES has placed them in context not as part of the Colonial legacy but as part of historic resources. This study takes the historic preservation movement in the context of community formation. The finding is as follows. CSES contextualizes "histories" of the community into life experiences of local residents for community formation.

Germs of disaster: the impact of epidemics on Japanese military campaigns in Taiwan, 1874 and 1895.

This essay highlights the ways in which epidemics shaped Japanese military campaigns in Taiwan in 1874 and again in 1895, as well as subsequent colonial policy after 1895. I have focused on these particular campaigns because a vast body of source materials exists which allows us not only to understand the diseases which ravaged the Japanese forces, but also to determine their effects on particular battles and subsequent Japanese military, foreign and colonial policy. For example, during the 1874 campaign in the southern tip of Taiwan, of the approximately 5,990 men at risk, only 4 soldiers were killed in battle, while 20 succumbed to battle wounds and other injuries. In contrast, 547 men died of disease, particularly malaria. During the 1895 campaign, the Japanese force of just over 50,000 men suffered horrific losses due to epidemics, with 4,642 soldiers dying of diseses as opposed to 164 killed in battle and 515 wounded or injured. Although the Japanese quickly won the war against the resistance forces, their battle against Taiwan's epidemics had only just begun, as thousands of Japanese soldiers and civilians perished during the first ears of the Japanese Occupation era (1895-1945). The Japanese soon realized that they would have to solve Taiwan's public health problems if they were to have any hope of effectively governing their new colony. As a result some of the first regulations of the colonial government concerned sanitation and quarantine measures. All in all, Japanese colonial policy and its colonial modernization of Taiwan appear to have been significantly shaped by fear of the island's epidemics and the need to bring them under control.

The Treatment of the “Japanese Occupation Era” in the Historical Studies of Modern Burma

The Treatment of the “Japanese Occupation Era” in the Historical Studies of Modern Burma