Documenting Mobility in the Japanese Empire and Beyond

Takahiro Yamamoto is Assistant Professor of Cultural Economic History at Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg, Germany. His focus is on the history of modern Japan, especially with regard to its borders, cross-border connections, and human mobility. Prior to coming to Heidelberg, Germany, he was a Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) Research Fellow (2016-2017), affiliated with the Graduate Schools of Law and Politics at the University of Tokyo. He has also served as a Global Perspectives on Society Teaching Fellow at New York University Shanghai.

• Introduction.- Chapter 1. Registering Koreans: The Collapse of the Japanese Empire and Institutional Change.- Chapter 2. Ordinary Transgressions: Falsifying Public Documents in Colonial Korea.- Chapter 3. Hacking the Machine: How Ordinary Fishers and a Local Knowledge of Nature Redefined Global Connectivity after the ‘Opening’ of Japan.- Chapter 4. Biometric Technologies and Mobilities: Why did fingerprint identification attract the Japanese imperialist power?.- Chapter 5. Documenting the Siberian Odyssey of Japanese Former Servicemen and Civilians, 1945-1956. Chapter 6. Polished and cultured, speaking English fluently: The Japanese Doctor of Broome.- Chapter 7. Crossing and Critiquing Borders: Discourse on Overlapping Imperial Controls.- Chapter 8. Ports, Papers, and People: Tracking Mobility through Modern Japan’s Transportation Systems.- Chapter 9. Japan in the international conferences on passports in the 1920s.