Japan's Colonization of Korea: Discourse and Power

Acknowledgments

ix I am grateful to too many teachers, friends, and family members for these few paragraphs to suffice, and many of these people fall into each category anyway, so my attempts are muddled from the start. I simply wish that I could win the lottery and get everyone together for a “Babette’s feast” to thank you all. Tetsuo Najita is a wonderful historian, and I will always be lucky to call him my adviser. Prasenjit Duara and Bruce Cumings challenged and expanded my questions in ways that I still haven’t begun to address, and Norma Field demonstrated the importance of examining the world with compassion at all times. Carol Gluck and Jim McClain were my first teachers of Japan, and in many ways they brought this book into being. Bill Sibley showed that without friendship there is no use for any of it, and Igarashi Akio remains too generous with time, space, and sake to thank in words. Any mistakes are, of course, mine, but Andre Schmid is responsible for this book. As I was blithely heading off to graduate school, he told me that I would never understand modern Japan without studying Korea. He was right, of course, but I didn’t know why until Han Suk-Jung became my teacher and friend and explained to me the human dimensions of Japan’s empire and the world in its wake. In this regard, I will also always look forward to learning from Melissa Wender. Geoff Klingsporn, Mark Schmeller, Alexandra Gillen, and Linda Zuckerman were the best friends, critics, and sparring partners that anyone could hope for during the delights of writing a dissertation. Chris Hill, Sarah Thal, Jonathan Field, Billy Hinton, Paul Gilmore, Sarah Rose, Kevin Bogart, Mark Bradley, Lydia Liu, Namhee Lee, David Ambaras, David Leheny, Angus LockAcknowledgments x Acknowledgments yer, Doug Howland, Tanaka Shinichi, Rob Oppenheim, Amanda Seaman, Sarah Frederick, Kris Troost, Karen Wigen, Mark Lincicome, Andy Gordon, Mark Selden, and especially Mark Caprio and Mike Molasky offered advice, music, and humor throughout this project, and the big Australian cane toad, Hayden Lesbirel, gave strength and friendship as things got a little more exciting than usual toward its end. Colleagues and students at Connecticut College have been tremendously helpful during a series of tar pits encountered on the road toward this book, and I am especially grateful to Lisa Wilson, Marc Forster, Cathy Stock, Sarah Queen, Tristan Borer, Janet Gezari, Lorraine McKinney,Alex Hybel, Tony Crubaugh , and Jeff Lesser. Support from Connecticut College as well as the Fulbright board, the Mellon Foundation, the University of Chicago, and the NEH made it all possible. My late colleague at Seoul National University, Kim Jangkwon , and the students in our seminar suffered through the manuscript’s final stages with me, and I will always be especially thankful to them, as well as to Professor Kim Ki-seok, for inviting me there. In uncanny ways, Sam Perry has been with me since the conception of these pages, and there will always be a Sam Suite waiting for you, provided, of course, that we can race off at a moment’s notice to places of nationalist frenzy wherever we are. Kobayashi Tsuyoshi, Takahashi Jin, Sakamoto Ayumi, the Yoshidas, and Kodama Nobuko made making this book a lot more fun. So did Song Daehon, and I promise that the next one won’t make your eyes go round in circles. What he doesn’t know, though, is how much better the book is now than it was before Madge Huntington, Joe Parsons, Suzy Kim, Karen Kodner, Ann Ludeman, and my excellent editor, Patricia Crosby, took charge. My Japanese parents, the Ichinoses, have been a home away from home for years, and my grandmother, Muzzie, was patient throughout. Adrianne and Arthur Dudden have been supportive beyond understanding, and I dedicate the following pages to them. Finally, there is no way to thank Robert Gay. We’ll just have to have dinner together. Japan’s Colonization of Korea ...