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Soeda and the Making of Modern Japan: Power, Religion and Industry in Northern Kyushu(9 Politics, Security and Society in Asia Pacific)

Soeda and the Making of Modern Japan: Power, Religion and Industry in Northern Kyushu(9 Politics, Security and Society in Asia Pacific)


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Soeda’s story provides insights into the last thousand years of Japanese history. It was the location of a strategically important castle, Ganjakuj., from the twelfth century until its destruction by Toyotomi Hideyoshi in 1587. Ganjakuj. controlled access to Mt Hiko which was the most important Shugend. monastic community in Kyushu until its dissolution in the 1870s. Coal mines in Soeda in the first half of the twentieth century owned by the Kurauchi family drove the modernization of the town and contributed to the industrialization of the country. During the Pacific war, these mines employed Korean labourers and Allied POWs. The town continued to contribute to national economic growth in the 1950s but, following the switch to oil as the main source of energy, its coal mines closed in the 1960s. For forty years between 1971–2010, Mayor Yamamoto Fumio sheltered the town from the worst impact of being ‘left behind’, yet the town continues to seek a new identity in the twenty-first century.

Table of Contents:
List of Illustrations List of Tables Preface and Acknowledgments Chapter 1: Introduction and early history Chapter 2: Mt Hiko – the evolution of a monastic community Chapter 3: Soeda: Its early modern history Chapter 4: The modernisation of Soeda Chapter 5: Coal mining in Soeda Chapter 6: Soeda in the war years Chapter 7: Soeda under occupation and after Chapter 8: Buraku in Soeda Chapter 9: ‘Post-industrial’ Soeda 1970–2010 Epilogue Soeda’s present and future List of Mt Hiko’s abbots (zasu) Kanji Glossary Bibliography Index

About the Author :
Ian Neary taught at the universities of Huddersfield, Newcastle and Essex before arriving at Oxford University in 2004. He retired in 2019 and is now an emeritus fellow at the Nissan Institute and St Antony’s College. He has written about Buraku issues, human rights and industrial policy in Japan and published a textbook on Japanese politics (2002, 2nd edition 2018). He lives for part of each year in the town of Soeda, Fukuoka prefecture.


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  • ISBN-13: 9789048571970
  • Publisher: Amsterdam University Press
  • Publisher Imprint: Amsterdam University Press
  • Language: English
  • Series Title: 9 Politics, Security and Society in Asia Pacific
  • ISBN-10: 9048571979
  • Publisher Date: 25 Jun 2025
  • Binding: Digital download
  • No of Pages: 246
  • Sub Title: Power, Religion and Industry in Northern Kyushu


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