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Punishment and Power in the Making of Modern Japan
Daniel V. Botsman
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Beschreibung
The kinds of punishment used in a society have long been considered an important criterion in judging whether a society is civilized or barbaric, advanced or backward, modern or premodern. Focusing on Japan, and the dramatic revolution in punishments that occurred after the Meiji Restoration, Daniel Botsman asks how such distinctions have affected our understanding of the past and contributed, in turn, to the proliferation of new kinds of barbarity in the modern world.
While there is no denying the ferocity of many of the penal practices in use during the Tokugawa period (1600-1868), this book begins by showing that these formed part of a sophisticated system of order that did have its limits. Botsman then demonstrates that although significant innovations occurred later in the period, they did not fit smoothly into the "modernization" process. Instead, he argues, the Western powers forced a break with the past by using the specter of Oriental barbarism to justify their own aggressive expansion into East Asia. The ensuing changes were not simply imposed from outside, however. The Meiji regime soon realized that the modern prison could serve not only as a symbol of Japan's international progress but also as a powerful domestic tool. The first English-language study of the history of punishment in Japan, the book concludes by examining how modern ideas about progress and civilization shaped penal practices in Japan's own colonial empire.
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Imperialism, Russo-Japanese War, Americans in Japan, Satsuma Rebellion, Disciplinary institution, Bakumatsu, Tokugawa shogunate, Arson, Journal of Japanese Studies, Torture, Meiji Restoration, Punishment and Social Structure, Attempt, Interrogation, Public execution, Torture chamber, Unrest, House of correction, Mass incarceration, Power politics, Colonialism, Reformatory, Death by burning, Theft, Bureaucrat, Samurai Rebellion, Institution, Kansei Reforms, Bloody Code, Korea under Japanese rule, Capital punishment, Imprisonment, Iwakura Mission, Crime in Japan, Extraterritoriality, House arrest, RIKEN, Prison, Fukuzawa Yukichi, War of aggression, Decapitation, Ichi (scarification), Racism, Seppuku, Warring States period, Taiwan under Japanese rule, First Sino-Japanese War, Hokkaido, Persecution, Takasugi Shinsaku, Empire of Japan, Meiji period, Slavery, Shogun, War, Discipline and Punish, Urban riots, Crime, Incest, New Prison, Edo period, Illustrations of Japan, Narcissism, Daimyo, Ansei Purge, Home Ministry, Decolonization, Unequal treaty, Criticism, Corporal punishment