The 75th Global Japan Studies Seminar

The Peril and Promise of Education: Japanese Settlers' Schooling in Davao, the American Philippines

Date and time: June 1, 2021 (Tue.), 4:00-5:00PM
Venue: Online via Zoom
Speaker:
Eri Kitada (Ph.D. Candidate, Rutgers University; Visiting Fellow, Institute for Advanced Studies on Asia, UTokyo)

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Abstract:
In the first half of the twentieth century, with the encouragement of U.S.
colonial and Japanese governments, Japanese migrants established
families, communities, and settlements throughout the Philippines that
endured until the end of World War II. My presentation sheds light on
this little-known history of Japanese settlement in the American
Philippines, investigating migrant schools created by these Japanese
communities. Building on insights by historians of gender and
colonialism, Japanese and U.S. empires, and Japanese diaspora, it
investigates the debates over mixed-race children of Japanese fathers
and Filipina mothers.
Geographically, this study focuses on Davao in
southeastern Mindanao, which was home to the biggest Japanese settler
community, about twenty thousand people, in the pre-World War II
Philippines. Davao then was a colonial hub of commercial agriculture
that Japanese settlers and companies came to dominate. I will show that
Japanese schooling in Davao is a crucial site for discussing the history
of race, migration, and empire.

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Organizer: Global Japan Studies Network (GJS)
Co-organizer: Institute for Advanced Studies on Asia (IASA)
Contact: gjs[at]ioc.u-tokyo.ac.jp <http://ioc.u-tokyo.ac.jp>