Nation-Empire engages with multiple historical debates. Chatani considers metropole-colony linkages, revealing the core characteristics of the Japanese Empire; discusses youth mobilization, analyzing the Japanese seinendan (village youth associations) as equivalent to the Boy Scouts or the Hitler Youth; and examines society and individual subjectivities under totalitarian rule. Her book highlights the shifting state-society transactions of the twentieth-century world through the lens of the Japanese Empire, inviting readers to contend with a new approach to, and a bold vision of, empire study.

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Introduction: Nation-Empire as Global and Local History

Part 1: THE SO-CALLED INNER TERRITORIES

1. National Trends

2. From Mobilization to the Social Mobility Complex

3. Totalitarian Japanization

Interlude: Okinawa's Place in the Nation-Empire

Part 2: THE SO-CALLED OUTER TERRITORIES

4. Colonial Intellectuals

5. Finding Rural Youth in Taiwan

6. The Emotional Basis for Japanization

7. Model Rural Youth in Korean Villages

8. Opportunities and Loopholes

Part 3: CONSEQUENCES

9. As Young Pillars of the Nation-Empire

Epilogue: Back in Villages

Notes

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