Crossing empire's edge : Foreign Ministry police and Japanese expansionism in Northeast Asia / Erik Esselstrom.
Material type: TextSeries: World of East AsiaPublisher: Honolulu : University of Hawai'i Press, [2009]Copyright date: ©2009Description: 1 online resource (xii, 233 pages) : illustrations, mapsContent type:- text
- computer
- online resource
- 9781441619846
- 1441619844
- 9780824862053
- 0824862058
- 0824868935
- 9780824868932
- Intelligence service -- Japan
- Consular police -- Japan
- Japan -- Foreign relations -- Korea
- Korea -- Foreign relations -- Japan
- Japan -- Foreign relations -- China
- China -- Foreign relations -- Japan
- POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Political Freedom & Security -- Law Enforcement
- POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Intelligence & Espionage
- Consular police
- Intelligence service
- Diplomatic relations
- China
- Japan
- Korea
- 363.28 22
- JQ1629.I6 E87 2009eb
Includes bibliographical references (pages 203-228) and index.
Patterns of police work in late Chosŏn Korea -- A disputed presence in late Qing and early Republican China -- Policing resistance to the imperial state -- Opposition, escalation, and integration -- The struggle for security in occupied China.
Print version record.
For more than half a century, the Japanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Gaimusho) possessed an independent police force that operated within the space of Japan's informal empire on the Asian continent. This text reveals its complex history.
English.
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