Eiichiro Azuma, "In Search of Our Frontier: Japanese America and Settler Colonialism in the Construction of Japan’s Borderless Empire," (University of California Press, 2022)

In Search of Our Frontier explores the complex transnational history of Japanese immigrant settler colonialism, which linked Japanese America with Japan’s colonial empire through the exchange of migrant bodies, expansionist ideas, colonial expertise, and capital in the Asia-Pacific basin before World War II. The trajectories of Japanese transpacific migrants exemplified a prevalent national structure of thought and practice that not only functioned to shore up the backbone of Japan’s empire building but also promoted the borderless quest for Japanese overseas development. Eiichiro Azuma offers new interpretive perspectives that will allow readers to understand Japanese settler colonialism’s capacity to operate outside the aegis of the home empire.  

• n Search of Our Frontier by Eiichiro Azuma
• Japanese Immigrant Settler Colonialism
• Transnational History of Japanese Expansion
• Japan's Empire Building in Asia-Pacific
• Japanese America and Colonial Empire Links
• Japanese Migration and Colonial Expertise
• Pre-WWII Japanese Transpacific Migration
• Japanese Overseas Development and Capital
• Borderless Expansion of Japanese Settler Colonialism
• Japanese Imperialism and Migrant Networks
• Asia-Pacific Basin Japanese Colonial History
• Japanese Settler Colonial Practices and Ideas
• Transpacific Migrant Influence on Empire Building
• New Perspectives on Japanese Colonialism