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Into the Field

Human Scientists of Transwar Japan

By: Miriam L. Kingsberg Kadia

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Into the Field

Human Scientists of Transwar Japan

By: Miriam L. Kingsberg Kadia

Into the Field is a collective biography of the generation of Japanese human scientists who created "objective" field knowledge of human diversity to support imperial expansionism and control before 1945, and modernization under U.S. auspices thereafter.

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1503610616

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Moral Nation

Modern Japan and Narcotics in Global History

By: Miriam Kingsberg

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Moral Nation

Modern Japan and Narcotics in Global History

By: Miriam Kingsberg

This trailblazing study examines the history of narcotics in Japan to explain the development of global criteria for political legitimacy in nations and empires in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Japan underwent three distinct crises of sovereignty in its modern history: in the 1890s, during the interwar period, and in the 1950s. Each crisis provoked successively escalating crusades against opium and other drugs, in which moral entrepreneurs--bureaucrats, cultural producers, merchants, law enforcement, scientists, and doctors, among others--focused on drug use as a means of distinguishing between populations fit and unfit for self-rule. Moral Nation traces the instrumental role of ideologies about narcotics in the country's efforts to reestablish its legitimacy as a nation and empire. As Kingsberg demonstrates, Japan's growing status as an Asian power and a "moral nation" expanded the notion of "civilization" from an exclusively Western value to a universal one. Scholars and students of Japanese history, Asian studies, world history, and global studies will gain an in-depth understanding of how Japan's experience with narcotics influenced global standards for sovereignty and shifted the aim of nation building, making it no longer a strictly political activity but also a moral obligation to society.

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Univ of California Press

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Into the Field

Human Scientists of Transwar Japan

By: Miriam L. Kingsberg Kadia

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Human Scientists of Transwar Japan

By: Miriam L. Kingsberg Kadia

In the 1930s, a cohort of professional human scientists coalesced around a common and particular understanding of objectivity as the foundation of legitimate knowledge, and of fieldwork as the pathway to objectivity. Into the Field is the first collective biography of this cohort, evocatively described by one contemporary as the men of one age. At the height of imperialism, the men of one age undertook field research in territories under Japanese rule in pursuit of "objective" information that would justify the subjugation of local peoples. After 1945, amid the defeat and dismantling of Japanese sovereignty and under the occupation and tutelage of the United States, they returned to the field to create narratives of human difference that supported the new national values of democracy, capitalism, and peace. The 1968 student movement challenged these values, resulting in an all-encompassing attack on objectivity itself. Nonetheless, the legacy of the men of one age lives on in the disciplines they developed and the beliefs they established about human diversity.

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Stanford University Press

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1503610624

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9781503610620

Moral Nation

Modern Japan and Narcotics in Global History

By: Miriam Kingsberg

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Modern Japan and Narcotics in Global History

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