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Index 287 “Allegorical Sense of Momotarō.” See “Momotarō no hanashi no gūi” allegory: ciphers and, 224n80; critical potential of, 5; as dialectical movement, 199–200n8; double meaning of, 199n7; Japanese colonial literature as, 4–6; Momotarō as, 121–25, 127, 130–33, 134–36, 182; types of, 5. See also under specific work allochronic primitivism, 141 Althusser, Louis, 3 Amakasu Masahiko, 116 Ambaras, David, 230–31n64 Analects (Confucius), 51 Anderson, Benedict, 200n26 Andō Sadami, 210n40 Angaul Island, 240n66 anime (cartoons), 119 anthropology, 25; colonies as objects of, 2, 82– 85; introduced in Japan, 2, 18, 36, 78–81; Japanese racial origins studied in, 79–81; racial categorization in, 205n96; as “science of savagery,” 182–83; use of term, 218n8. See also ethnography anticapitalism, 214n93 anticonquest narratives, 179–80 anti-imperialism, 34, 148 Antoni, Klaus, 228n35, 235n139 Anya kōro (Shiga), 112, 226n9 Aotokage no yume (Hijikata), 163 Arai Hakuseki, 217n3 Abe Kōbō, 183, 245n1 “About My Hometown.” See “Kōkyō ni tsuite” “Account of the Outlying Southern Islands.” See “Nanpō ritōki” Adams, Herbert Baxter, 232n81 Adventures of Dankichi, The (manga series), 144–46, 167, 185, 196, 235n149 affiliation, 72, 215n111 Africa, 63, 162–63 African-American writers, 241n69 Africans, in Japanese racial hierarchy, 22–23 Ainu people: anthropological view of, 78, 80; assimilation of, 230n50; cannibalism trope and, 193–94; as Caucasians, 24; conflicting Japanese views of, 200n14; declared indigenous people, 247n39; ethnographic research on, 193–94, 218n15; folk art of, 57, 212n65; Fukuzawa civilization theory and, 204n82; Hokkaido colonization and, 231n74; in Japanese racial hierarchy, 23; Japanese terms used to describe, 8; Minamoto no Yoshitsune and, 227n22; pre-Ainu group, 80, 218n9 akabon (children’s book form), 117 Akai Tori (journal), 56–57 “Akamushijima nisshi” (Ishikawa), 236n10 Akashi Motojirō, 220n44 Akutagawa Prize, 154, 183 Akutagawa Ryūnosuke, 1, 3, 6, 137–38. See also “Momotarō” archaeology, 2, 80, 217n3 Arendt, Hannah, 33 Aristotle, 202n59 Arisugawanomiya, 213n81 Around the World in Eighty Days (Verne), 217n1 Arthur, George, 41 “Aru seikatsu” (Nakajima), 236n5 Asahi (newspaper), 226n7, 229n44 Ashio Copper Mine, 213n87 Asians, in Japanese racial hierarchy, 22–23, 147–48 Asiatic Society of Japan, 218n9 assimilation policies: contradictory expectations from, 14; cultural hybridity as result of, 172; ethnic cross-dressing and, 73–74; gradualism in, 129–30; indirect rule vs., 32; interethnic marriages and, 241–42n72; Japanese language and, 104; Japanese settler discontent with, 233n111; Japanization, 216n127; for Koreans in Japan, 74, 224n90; as mask for discrimination, 206n103; in Okinawa, 207n118; opposition to, 134–35; sameness/ similarity rhetoric and, 30, 205n95; shifting emphasis on, 232n85; in South Seas, 129–30, 180; in Taiwan, 43, 134–35, 216n127 Ataiyal aborigines, 11, 41, 64–65, 83, 134, 221n52 Ataiyal language, 100 Atolls (Nakajima). See Kanshō atomic bomb, 191, 247n47 Austronesian aborigines, 39 auto-Orientalism, 28, 204n88 Ayuthhaya (Thailand), 228n28 Baelz, Erwin von, 79 Bakhtin, Mikhail, 110, 225 “Banana Maiden” (pop song), 241n70 banchi (Taiwanese aboriginal land), 7, 44, 93 “Banfu” (Ōshika), 63 banfu (Taiwanese savage woman), 7, 67, 76 “Banjin no musume” (Nakamura), 204n91, 212n74 banjō (Taiwanese savage condition), 7–8 “Banjo Rion” (Masugi), 59 “Bankai no onna” (Nakamura), 58 Banmuhonchō chōsaka (paramilitary group), 86 “Bansei mondai ni kan suru ikensho” (Mochiji), 44–46 Barclay, Paul, 207n9, 212n77, 214n95 Barthes, Roland, 78 Batchelor, John, 218n9, 227n22 Battleship at the Bottom of the Sea (Oshikawa). See Kaitei gunkan Beasts Head Home. See Kemonotachi wa kōkyō o mezashite “Beautiful Town.” See “Utsukushii machi” beauty, temperate vs. tropical standards of, 170–72 Becoming Japanese (Ching), 4, 209n28 Befu, Harumi, 204n88 Benjamin, Walter, 199–200n8, 224n80 Bhabha, Homi: British colonization of India and, 12–13; colonial mimicry theory of, 14, 17, 18, 174, 179; postcolonial hybridity and, 161 biological determinism, 45, 46–47 Birth of Momotarō. See Momotarō no tanjō Biruma no tategoto (Takeyama), 187–89, 196– 97, 246n22 Blumenbach, Johann Friedrich, 219n23 Bōken Dankichi (manga series). See Adventures of Dankichi, The (manga series) bōken Dankichi syndrome, 241n68 border markers, 103–5, 106–7, 225n93 Botan aborigines, 15–16, 61–62 Botel-Tobago (Taiwan), 83 boy-heroes, 143–46 “Boy-King of the South Seas.” See “Nan’yō no Shōnen ō” boys’ magazines, 120, 144–46, 185 brigandage, repression of, 209n37 British Empire, 9, 12–13, 180, 199n4, 205n100 Brooks, Barbara, 224n86 Buckle, Henry Thomas, 26, 203n80 Bungakukai (literary periodical), 154 “Bunmei kokumin nanka no taisei” (Nitobe), 123 “Bunmei no nanshin” (Nitobe), 130 Bunmeiron no gairyaku (Fukuzawa), 25–27, 66, 203n78 Bunun tribe, 41, 220n43 Bureau of Aboriginal Affairs, 56...

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