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Transnational Japan as History: Empire, Migration, and Social Movements

Transnational Japan as History: Empire, Migration, and Social Movements REVIEW ARTICLE | 175 Book Reviews Transnational Japan as History: Empire, Migration, and Social Movements By Pedro IACOBELLI, Danton LEARY and Shinnosuke TAKAHASHI New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016. xiii + 275pp. ISBN: 978-1-137-56877-9 (Hardcover) Reviewed by Torsten WEBER German Institute for Japanese Studies Tokyo, Japan doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.12773/arwh.2017.5.1.175 Is transnational history a useful approach to historical problems? To many readers this sentence may sound like a question from the past millennium but, in fact, it is posed in the introduction of the edited volume under review, a recent addition to Palgrave Macmillan’s Transnational History Series. Unsurprisingly, the editors strongly emphasize the advantages of the transnational approach in general and of studying Japan from a transnational rather than national or “self-centered” (p. 7) perspective in particular. Of course, this argument is neither entirely new nor does it seem to have come under attack recently. On the contrary, as the series editors Akira Iriye and Rana Mitter affirm in their brief foreword, the boom in global (or world) history has actually added further value and credibility to transnational history because it “provide[s] a fresh way of looking at the world’s past 176 | ASIAN REVIEW OF WORLD HISTORIES 4:2 (JULY 2016) and http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Asian Review of World Histories Brill

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REVIEW ARTICLE | 175 Book Reviews Transnational Japan as History: Empire, Migration, and Social Movements By Pedro IACOBELLI, Danton LEARY and Shinnosuke TAKAHASHI New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016. xiii + 275pp. ISBN: 978-1-137-56877-9 (Hardcover) Reviewed by Torsten WEBER German Institute for Japanese Studies Tokyo, Japan doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.12773/arwh.2017.5.1.175 Is transnational history a useful approach to historical problems? To many readers this sentence may sound like a question from the past millennium but, in fact, it is posed in the introduction of the edited volume under review, a recent addition to Palgrave Macmillan’s Transnational History Series. Unsurprisingly, the editors strongly emphasize the advantages of the transnational approach in general and of studying Japan from a transnational rather than national or “self-centered” (p. 7) perspective in particular. Of course, this argument is neither entirely new nor does it seem to have come under attack recently. On the contrary, as the series editors Akira Iriye and Rana Mitter affirm in their brief foreword, the boom in global (or world) history has actually added further value and credibility to transnational history because it “provide[s] a fresh way of looking at the world’s past 176 | ASIAN REVIEW OF WORLD HISTORIES 4:2 (JULY 2016) and

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