| Project/Area Number |
18K01001
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
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| Allocation Type | Multi-year Fund |
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| Section | 一般 |
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| Review Section |
Basic Section 03030:History of Asia and Africa-related
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| Research Institution | Kyushu University |
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Principal Investigator |
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| Project Period (FY) |
2018-04-01 – 2023-03-31
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| Project Status |
Completed (Fiscal Year 2022)
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| Budget Amount *help |
¥2,600,000 (Direct Cost: ¥2,000,000、Indirect Cost: ¥600,000)
Fiscal Year 2020: ¥910,000 (Direct Cost: ¥700,000、Indirect Cost: ¥210,000)
Fiscal Year 2019: ¥780,000 (Direct Cost: ¥600,000、Indirect Cost: ¥180,000)
Fiscal Year 2018: ¥910,000 (Direct Cost: ¥700,000、Indirect Cost: ¥210,000)
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| Keywords | Decolonization / East Asian history / Taiwan / Assimilation / 東アジア史 / 近現代史 |
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| Outline of Final Research Achievements |
The purpose of this research project was to examine American and Chinese occupation policies in postwar Japan and Taiwan, focusing on the process and outcome of dismantling Japanese colonialism. During the first two years, I conducted archival research on Nationalist Chinese policies towards Taiwan after 1945, collecting official sources on new forms of personal identity documents. Based on these historical documents, I presented my research findings on the politics of postcolonial identification at an international symposium. As I continued to translate and analyze these Chinese sources, including individual petitions, I decided to focus on the recovery of Chinese names for Taiwanese who had adopted Japanese names before 1945. I gave an online presentation on this name-recovery campaign, which serves as a window to understanding decolonization and postcolonialism in Taiwan.
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| Academic Significance and Societal Importance of the Research Achievements |
The significance of this research project is three-fold: 1) to rediscover the forgotten history of decolonization in East Asia; 2) to examine the reasons why decolonization was compromised during the Cold War; and 3) to insert East Asia into the global history of decolonization.
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