Colonial Modernity and Networks in the Japanese Empire : The Role of Goto Shinpei

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• This paper examines how Goto Shinpei (1857-1929) sought to develop imperial networks emanating out of Tokyo in the fields of public health, railways, and communications. These areas helped define colonial modernity in the Japanese empire. In public health, Goto's friendship with the bacteriologist Kitasato Shibasaburo led to the establishment of an Institute of Infectious Diseases in Tokyo. Key scientists from the institute took up positions in colonial medical colleges, creating a public health network that serviced the empire. Much of the empire itself was linked by a network of railways. Goto was the first president of the South Manchuria Railway Company (SMR). Communication technologies, especially radio, helped to bring the empire closer. By 1925, the Tokyo Broadcasting Station had begun its public radio broadcasts. Broadcasting soon came under the umbrella of the new organization, the Nippon Hoso Kyokai (NHK). Goto was NHK's first president. The empire would soon be linked by radio, and it was by radio that Emperor Hirohito announced to the nation in 1945 that the empire had been lost.

• 2010-03-31

著者

• LOW Morris

  School of Languages and Comparative Cultural Studies, The University of Queensland

• Low Morris

  School Of Languages And Comparative Cultural Studies The University Of Queensland

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