Oceanic Japan : the archipelago in Pacific and global history / edited by Stefan Huebner, Nadin Heé, Ian J. Miller, and William M. Tsutsui.
| Format | Book |
| Publication | Honolulu : University of Hawaiʻi Press, [2024] |
| Description | xv, 404 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps (chiefly color) ; 24 cm |
| Subjects |
| Other author/creator | Huebner, Stefan editor. |
| Other author/creator | Heé, Nadin editor. |
| Other author/creator | Miller, Ian Jared, 1970- editor. |
| Other author/creator | Tsutsui, William M. editor. |
| Portion of title | Archipelago in Pacific and global history |
| Contents | Part I. Terraqueous connections -- Framing essay: how the sea comes ashore / Bathsheba Demuth -- From black ships to black smoke: the lines out of Karatsu / Martin Dusinberre -- An urbanizing ocean: constructions of the Tsushima Strait, 1876 / Hannah Shepherd -- Mutsu adrift: a nuclear ship, scallop growers, and the inescapable ecologies of Mutsu Bay / Toshihiro Higuchi -- The flavor of rivers: salmon, cows, and tree-planting fishers in eastern Hokkaido, Japan / Takehiro Watanabe -- Part II. Technology -- framing essay: of eyes and ships -- islands at either end of Asia / Sujit Sivasundaram -- Sailing within sight of the land: technology and Japanese relationships with the sea in the Tokugawa Period (1603-1868) / Jakobina Arch -- The legible South Sea of the Imperial Japanese navy: measuring maritime battlefields -- from the unsinkable destroyer Yukikaze / Brett L. Walker -- The platform archipelago: islands of technological adaptation beyond a terrestrialized mindset / Stefan Huebner -- Part III. Social status -- Framing essay: tales untold / Marcia Yonemoto -- The strange case of the castaway princess and other stories of Japan in the Pacific / David L. Howell -- Turbulence in the Seto Inland Sea: The Kosaka uprising of 1868 / Katherine Matsuura -- Bonin blue: people and possibility at 27 degrees north / Alexis Dudden -- Picturing the Pacific: seas on Japanese maps, 1600-1900 / Kären Wigen -- Part IV. Governance -- Framing essay: seeking stability in times of change / Carmel Finley -- Japan's sea of islands: an aquapelagic history / Paul Kreitman -- Sampan and Uncle Sam: the collaboration and confrontation between Hawaiʻi and Washington during the mid-twentieth century over Japanese sampan fishing in Hawaiian waters / Manako Ogawa -- Japanese pelagic fisheries and the enclosure of the North Pacific / Sayuri Guthrie-Shimizu -- Part V. Danger -- Framing essay: tumultuous and uncanny -- Japan's ocean as a danger zone / Gregory Clancey -- Tsunami research and preparedness in the Pacific in the twentieth century / Julia Mariko Jacoby -- Tetrapods and eco-ontologies of coastal Infrastructure in Japan / Gerald Figal -- Living with the ruined ocean: stories of building the future in Fukushima / Satsuki Takahashi -- Part VI. The materiality of water -- Framing essay: Japan's material Pacific / Ryan Tucker Jones -- Islands of the Kuroshio frontier, or building the infrastructure of an archipelagic empire / Jonas Rüegg -- Japan's imperial fisheries: migration and tuna frontiers in the Indo-Pacific / Nadin Heé -- Becoming Kai-lingual: shellfish sensors, oceanic traces, and the interpretation of submerged histories in Ago Bay / Kjell Ericson. |
| Abstract | "Japan's oceans demand our attention. Violent, prolific, and changeful, they define life and death on the archipelago: pushing the shore under the rush of tsunami, charging typhoon circulation, feeding millions, and seeding conflicts over territory and resources. And yet, Japan studies remains largely beholden to a terrestrial view of the world that is at odds with the importance of the sea. This "terrestrial bias" also means that on those occasions when oceans are recognized they are most often presented as dividers or connectors-spaces in between rather than rich ecologies and meaningful sites. Oceanic Japan is meant to help readers re-envision Japanese history in order to show how the seas created the country that we know today. The book convenes a diverse, multinational, multidisciplinary group of scholars to expand the scope of Japan studies and the environmental humanities. The chapters draw from the broader turn to the sea-characterized by new oceanic and terraqueous perspectives-developing within our field and in areas such as Pacific history and Indian Ocean studies. Our vision is bifocal. On the one hand, we aim to reorient East Asian studies and Japan studies to the sea, underlining how oceans have shaped dynamics from the Tokugawa Era forward into the age of empire and the crisis of the Anthropocene. On the other hand, we argue for a more nuanced environmental approach within the burgeoning field of Oceanic studies. Seeing oceanic spaces as more than entrepots or political spheres requires thinking in new, often vertical, volumetric ways. Our chapters follow human and non-human actors to recognize the variegation of watery ecologies through winds, tides, coasts, seabeds, and currents such as the Kuroshio and Oyashio, which have always shaped life on the archipelago"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Issued in other form | Online version: Oceanic japan Honolulu : University of Hawaiʻi, 2024 9780824899288 |
| LCCN | 2024008357 |
| ISBN | 9780824897680 hardcover |
| ISBN | 0824897684 hardcover |
| ISBN | electronic book |
| ISBN | kindle edition |
| ISBN | electronic book |