Rise of a Japanese Chinatown: Yokohama, 1894-1972 By Eric C. Han 2014 | 266 Pages | ISBN: 067449198X | PDF | 19 MB Rise of a Japanese Chinatown is the first English-language monograph on the history of a Chinese immigrant community in Japan. It focuses on the transformations of that population in the Japanese port city of Yokohama from the Sino-Japanese War of 1894-1895 to the normalization of Sino-Japanese ties in 1972 and beyond. Eric C. Han narrates the paradoxical story of how, during periods of war and peace, Chinese immigrants found an enduring place within a monoethnic state.This study makes a significant contribution to scholarship on the construction of Chinese and Japanese identities and on Chinese migration and settlement. Using local newspapers, Chinese and Japanese government records, memoirs, and conversations with Yokohama residents, it retells the familiar story of Chinese nation building in the context of Sino-Japanese relations. But it builds on existing works by directing attention as well to non-elite Yokohama Chinese, those who sheltered revolutionary activists and served as an audience for their nationalist messages. Han also highlights contradictions between national and local identifications of these Chinese, who self-identified as Yokohama-ites (hamakko) without claiming Japaneseness or denying their Chineseness. Their historical role in Yokohama's richly diverse cosmopolitan past can offer insight into a future, more inclusive Japan.
Yasuhiro Makimura, "Yokohama and the Silk Trade: How Eastern Japan Became the Primary Economic Region of Japan, 1843-1893 " English | ISBN: 1498555594 | 2017 | 276 pages | PDF | 9 MB This study provides a broad political and economic examination of the impact of the silk trade on nineteenth-century Japan. It analyzes the economic role of Japan's eastern interior region and that of the port of Yokohama. It argues that the economic development in this period laid the foundations for Japan's prewar industrial development in the late nineteenth century and was largely responsible for the integration of Japan into the global economy. Simon Partner, "The Merchant's Tale: Yokohama and the Transformation of Japan " English | ISBN: 0231182937 | 2020 | 320 pages | PDF | 11 MB In April 1859, at age fifty, Shinohara Chūemon left his old life behind. Chūemon, a well-off farmer in his home village, departed for the new port city of Yokohama, where he remained for the next fourteen years. There, as a merchant trading with foreigners in the aftermath of Japan's 1853 "opening" to the West, he witnessed the collapse of the Tokugawa shogunate, the civil war that followed, and the Meiji Restoration's reforms. The Merchant's Tale looks through Chūemon's eyes at the upheavals of this period.
The Yokohama System for Reporting Endometrial Cytology: Definitions, Criteria, and Explanatory Notes English | 2022 | ISBN: 9811650101 | 267 Pages | PDF | 26 MB This book describes a standardized method for classifying and reporting invasive endometrial malignancies via direct endometrial sampling. Featuring a wealth of color illustrations, it provides specific diagnostic categories and cytomorphologic criteria to promote uniform and reliable diagnoses. It also describes the history of directly sampled endometrial cytology, reviews the sampling techniques and algorithmic approach, discusses specimen adequacy, and outlines challenges for the future. A Pioneer in Yokohama: A Dutchman's Adventures in the New Treaty Port (Hackett Classics) by C.T. Assendelft de Coningh 2012 | ISBN: 1603848371, 1603848363 | English | 216 pages | EPUB | 3 MB n relating the story of his life on the island of Deshima and in the port of Yokohama during the late 1850s, Dutch merchant C. T. Assendelft de Coningh provides both an unprecedented eyewitness account of daily life in the Japanese treaty ports and a unique perspective on the economic, military, and political forces the Western imperial powers brought to bear on newly opened Japan. |