International Comparative Research on forming and changing Taiwanese Identity of ex-Taiwanese Japanese soldier living outside of Taiwan

2016 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 26780290
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Research Field: Sociology
• Research Institution: Kanagawa University (2016); Waseda University (2014-2015)
• Principal Investigator: YAO Shohei 神奈川大学, 経営学部, 講師 (90630731)
• Research Collaborator: OKANO Shota ; SASAKI Ryoko
• Project Period (FY): 2014-04-01 – 2017-03-31
• Keywords: 華僑華人 / 台湾 / インドネシア / 日本 / 台湾人元日本兵 / ライフヒストリー

Outline of Final Research Achievements

This comparative research project examines the formation and changing Taiwanese Identity of ex-Taiwanese Japanese soldiers living in Japan and Indonesia. In Taiwan Studies, it is generally said the begging of the forming Taiwan Identity is 228 incident in 1940’s. But the result of this project demonstrates for the Taiwanese who lives in out of Taiwan it could be thought their forming self-identity as Taiwanese are more effected by the democratization of Taiwan since 1990’s. Taiwanese overseas has been marginalized between Overseas Japanese studies and Overseas Chinese studies and the blank of the previous research. This research has been one of arising the Taiwanese overseas studies and the beginning of re-writing the history of East Asia and South-East Asia in the eyes of the marginalized people after WW2.

Free Research Field

社会学