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Race and Migration in Imperial Japan

A high degree of cultural and racial homogeneity has long been associated with Japan. Indeed, such expressions as Japan is a uniquely homogeneous society are an important part of political discourse inside Japan and of the lexicon of postwar Japanese scholarship. This book examines the assumptions underlying such statements. The author provides an analysis of racial discourse in Japan, its articulation and rearticulation over the past century, against the background of labour migration from the colonial periphery. The myth of a Japanese race is deconstructed.

A second major theme that is pursued is that of colonial migration, its causes and consequences. Rather than merely identifying the push factors, the analysis focuses on the more dynamic pull factors that determined immigrant destinations. Similarly, rather than focusing upon the immigrant, the author examines the structural need for low-cost temporary labour that was filled by Korean immigrants.

While providing an invaluable, well-documented resource for students of Japanese and Korean history and society, this book also provides important insights for students of labour migration, comparative colonialism and ethnic or racial studies.

Dr Michael Weiner is Director of the Centre for Japanese Studies at the University of Sheffield.

The Sheffield Centre for Japanese Studies/Routledge Series

Previously published:

The Internationalization of Japan

Edited by Glenn Hook and Michael Weiner

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Race and Migration in Imperial Japan

Michael Weiner

First published 1994

by Routledge

2 Park Square, Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon, OX14 4RN

Simultaneously published in the USA and Canada

by Routledge

270 Madison Ave, New York NY 10016

Reprinted 1999, 2002

Transferred to Digital Printing 2006

1994 Michael Weiner

Routledge is an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group

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PontingGreen Publishing Services, Chesham, Bucks

All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reprinted or reproduced or utilized in any form or by any electronic, mechanical, or other means, now known or hereafter invented, including photocopying and recording, or in any information storage or retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publishers.

British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data

A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library.

Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data

Weiner, Michael

Race and migration in Imperial Japan: Michael Weiner.

p. cm. (Sheffield Centre for Japanese Studies/Routledge series)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

1. KoreansJapanHistory. 2. JapanEthnic relations.

3. KoreaHistoryJapanese occupation, 19101945.

I. Title. II. Series.

DS832.7.K6W44 1994

952'.004957dc20

9324007
CIP
AC

ISBN 0415062284

This book is dedicated to my daughters, Jessica and Leah

Contents

FIGURES

Organisational structure of the Kywakai

Government-directed labour recruitment, 19421944

TABLES

Japanese rice imports by country of origin, 19111938

Industrial distribution of Korean households, 1910

Koreans resident in Japan: selected years, 19131927

Migration channels to Japan, 1927

Comparative daily wage rates for Japanese and Korean workers (Osaka, Kobe, Kyoto), 1930

Korean migration to Japan, 19171927

Distribution of Korean students in Japan, 19151930

Principal Korean student organisations, 19061925

Koreans requiring surveillance, by prefecture and affiliation, 1925

Korean officials employed by the Government-General, 19191942

Civilian police officials in Korea, 19201940

Korean judges and procurators of Snin rank, 19191943

Educational provision in Japanese and Korean Common Schools, 19151940

Korean student population in Japan, 19321940

Distribution of farm households in Korea, 19141940

Immigrant province of origin, 1934, 1936

Comparative daily wage rates for Japanese and Korean workers in the OsakaKobe region

Average daily wage rates for Japanese and Korean factory workers

Illegal immigrants apprehended by the police, 19291939

Estimated number of Koreans residing in Japan, 19251938

Number of Koreans entering and leaving Japan: selected years, 19241935

Korean population of six major cities in Japan, 1936

Estimates of the Korean population by prefecture, 19261938

Occupational distribution within the Korean community: selected years, 19281936

Estimates of unemployment in Japan, 19291933

Reasons for migration, Tokyo 1929

Monthly employment for Korean labourers: all industries, Tokyo 1936

Daily wage and number of days of employment per month for Korean labourers, Osaka 1934

Employment on winter public works projects, 19251929

Winter unemployment relief projects in the Hanshin industrial region: Koreans employed, 1925, 1927 and 1929

Korean mineworkers employed by Hokutan, 19251937

Turnover rates for Koreans employed by Hokutan, 19241936

Koreans employed in minework by prefecture and occupation, 1934, 1936 and 1938

Korean factory workers, Osaka 1930

Comparative wages, Osaka 1928

Koreans employed by Kishiwada Cotton Spinning Company, 1924

Distribution of female factory workers, 1924

Labour disputes involving Korean workers, 19321937

Labour disputes in Osaka and Tokyo, November 1930 to October 1931

Immigrant family housing, Osaka 1932

Average income and expenditure, Tokyo 1935

Disputes involving Japanese and Koreans, 19301938

Distribution of Korean immigrants by length of residence and family status, 19231934

Male/female distribution of immigrant population: selected years, 19291937

Koreans receiving public assistance

Immigrant levels of education and familiarity with the Japanese language

Occupational distribution of Korean workers (area administered by the Fukuoka Employment Exchange)

Distribution of conscript Korean labour by industry, 19391945

Annual conscription of Korean workers by industry, 19391945

Estimates of the Korean population in Japan, 19391945

Koreans as a proportion of the coal-mining labour force, 19411945

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