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Intro -- CONTENTS -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Colonial Administration Decisions -- 1. Western Assimilation Practices -- 2. Japan's Development of Internal and Peripheral Assimilation -- 3. Forming Korean Assimilation Policy -- 4. Post-March First Policy Reform and Assimilation -- 5. Radical Assimilation underWartime Conditions -- 6. Korean Critiques of Japanese Assimilation Policy -- Conclusion: Evaluating Peripheral Colonization -- Notes -- Glossary -- Bibliography -- Index.

AbstractThe battles of the Pacific War formally ended between mid-August and early September, 1945. However, the declarations of peace and surrender ceremonies that occurred during this time did not end informal battles across the Asian continent. Renegade Japanese military personnel refused to lay down their arms and repatriate quietly to their country. Some combed the waters between Japan and Korea in search of returnees attempting to repatriate with financial and material means in excess of that which the United States military governments allowed. Others sought to disrupt the occupation process by patrolling the streets of Korean cities and engaging in illegal and often violent activities. Koreans also caused problems by joining the Japanese in their postwar adventures or by harassing Japanese preparing to return to Japan and the Korean sympathizers who attempted to help them. Reportage of such actions appeared in the G-2 Periodic Report, which kept a daily record of such actions. These documents today open windows into the chaotic situation that the postwar era brought to Japanese and Koreans. Primarily through these reports, this paper sees the postwar belligerence that continued beyond official declarations of cease fire and peace in 1945 as kindling that sparked the broader conflicts of the late 1940s, and evolved to all-out war from the summer of 1950.

The first Americans to arrive in Korea following Japan's surrender at the end of World War II brought with them a quartet of Korean soldiers that U.S. officials had recruited for the Eagle Project, the most ambitious American effort to use Koreans in the Pacific War that punctuated a long wartime effort to enlist Allied diplomatic and military support for overseas Koreans. In response, U.S. officials had insisted that Korean exiles in the United States unify their efforts. This condition referenced squabbles among Korean groups in general, with the most transparent being those between Syngman Rhee and Haan Kilsoo. While Korean combatants on the Asian mainland managed to gain some U.S. support for their cause, recognition of their potential came too late in the war for them to help liberate their country. Ultimately, the United States turned to the Japanese and Japanese-trained Koreans to assist in this occupation. Reviewing the history of both Korean lobbying and U.S. response to it provides the opportunity to ask whether better handling of the Korean issue during World War II could have provided U.S. occupation forces with better circumstances to prepare southern Korea for a swift, and unified, independence.

Caprio reviews Target North Korea: Pushing North Korea to the Brink of Nuclear Catastrophe by Gavan McCormack.

Before and after defeat: crossing the great 1945 divide / Mark E. Caprio and Christine de Matos -- Part I. The physical dimension: corporeal occupation -- Cash and blood: the Chinese community and the Japanese occupation of Borneo, 1941-1945 / Keat Gin -- State, sterilization and reproductive rights: Japan as the occupier and the occupied / Maho Toyoda -- Labor under military occupation: allied POWs and the allied occupation of Japan / Christine de Matos -- More bitter than sweet: reflecting on the Japanese community in British North Borneo, 1885-1946 / Shigeru Sato -- Part II. The cognitive dimension: psychological occupation -- Colonial-era Korean collaboration over two occupations: delayed closure / Mark E. Caprio -- Film and the representation of ideas in Korea during and after Japanese occupation, 1940-1948 / Brian Yecies -- Patriotic collaboration?: Zhou Fohai and the Wang Jingwei government during the Second Sino-Japanese War / Brian G. Martin -- Trapped in the contested borderland: Sakhalin Koreans, wartime displacement and identity / Igor R. Saveliev -- Collapsing the past into the present: the occupation of Japan seen in the pages of the journal New Women / Curtis Anderson Gayle -- Dividing islanders: the repatriation of "Ry'ky'ans" from occupied Japan / Matthew R. Augustine -- Memories of the Japanese occupation: Singapore's first official Second World War memorial and the politics of commemoration / John Kwok -- A textual reading of my Manchuria: idealism, conflict and modernity / Mo Tian

More than one-half million people of Korean descent reside in Japan today—the largest ethnic minority in a country often assumed to be homogeneous. This timely, interdisciplinary volume blends original empirical research with the vibrant field of diaspora studies to understand the complicated history, identity, and status of the Korean minority in Japan. An international group of scholars explores commonalities and contradictions in the Korean diasporic experience, touching on such issues as citizenship and belonging, the personal and the political, and homeland and hostland