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• Winner of Choice Magazine Outstanding Academic Title 2019
• Winner of Choice Magazine Outstanding Academic Title 2019 (United States)

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Chatani answers a vexing question of colonialism: why rural youth in Japan, Taiwan, and Korea actively engaged in colonial and wartime initiatives, including military service. This history transforms our understanding of Japan as a nation-empire and makes a valuable contribution to the world history of youth. -- Lori Watt, Associate Professor of History, Washington University in St. Louis, and author of <I>When Empire Comes Home</I> Nation-Empire redirects the scholarly focus from urban toward rural society and offers a persuasive analysis of sociopolitical change and subjectivity formation across the Japanese empire. Rigorous in its framing and effective in its comparisons, this book is a substantial contribution and reminder that modernity was not simply an urban affair. -- David Ambaras, Associate Professor of History, North Carolina State University, and author of <I>Bad Youth: Juvenile Delinquency and the Politics of Everyday Life in Modern Japan</I>

Chatani answer a vexing question of colonialism: why rural youth in Japan, Taiwan, and Korea actively engaged in colonial and wartime initiatives, including military service. This history transforms our understanding of Japan as a nation-empire and makes a valuable contribution to the world history of youth. -- Lori Watt, Associate Professor of History, Washington University in St. Louis, and author of <I>When Empire Comes Home</I> Nation-Empire redirects the scholarly focus from urban toward rural society and offers a persuasive analysis of sociopolitical change and subjectivity formation across the Japanese empire. Rigorous in its framing and effective in its comparisons, this book is a substantial contribution and reminder that modernity was not simply an urban affair. -- David Ambaras, Associate Professor of History, North Carolina State University, and author of <I>Bad Youth: Juvenile Delinquency and the Politics of Everyday Life in Modern Japan</I>

"Chatani (history, National Univ. of Singapore) has written a groundbreaking study of how and why young men in rural areas of Japan and its then-colonies, Taiwan and Korea, became emotionally invested in the project of Japanese nationalism and militarism. Providing a new perspective on the emotional attraction of the Japanese Empire and the opportunities it provided to the youth in the colonies, this superb study will be required reading for those interested in modern Japanese history, Japanese empire-building, and imperialism and colonialism. * Choice * Nation-Empire contributes to a number of fields and should be widely read outside of East Asian history... while there are other works that address the local-global dynamic as it applies to colonialism in East Asia and elsewhere, Chatani raises the bar by adding several layers to both the local and ""global"" without slighting one over the other. * PACIFIC AFFAIRS * Nation-Empire will already be of tremendous value to any scholar seeking to undertake comparative research on empires and global youth culture, and we can expect that this book will remain the definitive work on youth in the Japanese Empire for a great many years to come. * The Journal of the History of Childhood and Youth * Chatani's study impresses greatly in its in-depth investigation of three locations across the empire, making excellent use of primary sources and secondary scholarship in four languages. This range is what enables her penetrating analytical comparisons of regional and local variations. * Journal of Japanese Studies *"

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Sayaka Chatani is Assistant Professor in the Department of History at the National University of Singapore.

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