Race for Empire: Koreans as Japanese and Japanese as Americans during World War II

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I N D E X 469 100th Infantry Battalion, 5, 85, 207, 215, 236, 380; casualties and decorations of, 207–8, 216, 218; desire to avenge Pearl Harbor and, 212–13; in Europe, 207–8, 215–16; resentment of “Jap,” 212; “reverse AWOL” of, 216. See also Japanese American soldiers 442nd Regimental Combat Team, 5, 195, 207, 225fig, 227, 236, 380, 383; casualties and decorations of, 207– 8, 217, 219, 226; in Europe, 207–8, 215–16; formation of, 86, 180, 212; Japanese American requests for, 212; as manpower, 205; presidential citation of, 219, 226; in propaganda, 204– 5; publicity of, 215; units in, 207. See also Japanese American soldiers 1399 Engineer Construction Battalion, 208 Adams, Ansel, 113fig Adjutant General’s Office, 87 adoption, 303, 318–23, 439n40; and primacy of blood, 322 African Americans, 14; alliance with Japanese, 88, 90, 93, 407–8n40, 423n39; contrasted with Japanese, 20–21, 230, 234–35; Japanese agitation amongst, 90–96; likened to Japanese, 170–71, 188; marriages with whites, 50; naturalization and, 12, 79; as “pathological,” 235; in propaganda, 99–100; and sexual intimacy with Japanese, 90–91. See also Tuskegee Syphilis Study African American soldiers and sailors, 10, 400n65; as abjected, 170; in Bataan, 317; blood segregation of, 223; in World War I and II, 208–9, Japanese agitation amongst, 93. See also Command of Negro Troops Afro-Asiatic League, 93 Agamben, Giorgio, 77, 396n13 Ainu, 24 Air Corps, 83, 88 Aiso, John F., 189 Akiyama ShOhei, 66–67 “Algeria Unveiled” (Fanon), 370 Alien Enemies Act, 150 American Civil Liberties Act, 5 American Defense Harvard Group, 107 American Indians. See Native Americans American Legion, 114 American Studies: area studies and, 29–30 An SQk-yQng, 354 animality, 80, 113, 120–21, 125, 127, 214 “Application for Voluntary Induction” (DSS 165), 139, 154 aristocracy, Japanese, 22, 237 Army Air Forces, 91; exclusion of Japanese Americans, 195 Army Chief of Staff, Office of, 85 Army Ground Forces, 87, 90–91 Army Nurse Corps, 133, 192 Army Pictorial Service, 215 Army Special Volunteers Extraordinary Induction Regulations, 46, 240 Army Special Volunteer System, 46, 51– 53, 64, 241–71; age and, 247fig; education and, 263fig; law establishing, 44; motivations of volunteers for, 245–55; number of soldiers in, 44, 245, 246fig; origins of, 245; pastoral power and, 261–62; processing and training under, 256–62, 272; service records for, 58, 265–69; socio-economic background of volunteers under, 246, 249–50, 251– 52, 262–65, 269–71; surveys of, 245– 49, 262–65, 290–91, 432–33n24. See also Korean soldiers and sailors Army Special Volunteer Training Centers, 260–61, 271, 273–74, 306, 325 Arnold, Stanley D., 164 Asia-Pacific War: continuing legacies of racism and, 385; memories of, 4–6; as struggle of empires, 2–3map; Asian Americans, 14; exclusion and inclusion of, 21; violence against, 380; World War II and, 13 470 · index Asian American studies, 29–30 Asians: and “hot war modernization theory,” 231–32; as racial category, 26 Asianstudies:andAsianAmericanstudies, 30 as if, 15–16, 48, 322, 390–91n28 assembly center, 80, 111–12, 120, 135–36, 151, 181. See also internment, Japanese American assimilation, 25–26; corporeal transmutation and, 328–30; racism and, 321 assistant chief of staff (AC of S), G-2 (Intelligence), 94, 129–30, 154, 157, 211 Assistant Secretary of War, Office of, 107, 109–10, 129 Association in Support of the Korean Special Volunteer Soldiers, 270–71 Atkinson, Polk, 200 Auxiliary Military Police, 42–43, 295 Balibar, Etienne, 9, 12, 15, 24, 25, 239 Bansh[ heiya (Miyamoto), 377 Bataan, 223, 317–18 Bataan death march, 209 Beau Geste, 310–12, 312fig, 315, 316fig, 354 “A Beginning” (“Shuppatsu”) (ChO), 343 Bellah, Robert, 233–34 Bendetsen, Karl R., 83 Benedict, Ruth, 14, 56–57, 399–400n62 Bennet, Le Roy, 141, 147–48 “Betterment of the treatment of Korean and Taiwanese compatriots” (ChOsen oyobi Taiwan dOhO ni taisuru shog[ kaizen), 64, 73 bio-power, 26, 35–40, 52; American welfare state and, 113fig; in colonial Korea, 31, 37–38, 52, 68, 70, 72, 75, 340; family and, 31, 381; Filipino soldiers and, 210; gender and, 31; internment camps and, 113fig, 114, 116–17, 173, 203–4; Japanese Americans and, 78, 82, 87; Korean soldiers and sailors and, 40; racism and, 39. See also Foucault, Michel; governmentality; population; “right to make live” Black Dragon...