Saunavaara, Juha
(2018)
Reconstructing And Redefining Hokkaido
During The Post-war Period.
International Journal of Asia Pacific Studies (IJAPS), 14 (1).
pp. 27-55.
ISSN ISSN: 1823-6243
Abstract
The dominating and often contradicting tendencies of the early post-war Hokkaido
were the continuing otherness, foreignness and distinctiveness from the rest of Japan,
and the growing integration into the nation state. In other words, Hokkaido became
more tightly connected to and more a part of Japan than ever before, but it clearly
retained its peculiarity and was not simply a region or prefecture among the others.
This study of Hokkaido is built on the premise that rather than being ahistorical
and unchangeable entities, regions can be considered as spatial manifestations of
social processes and they have to be conceptualised and analysed empirically as a
part of the historical development of the society. It utilises the institutionalisation of
region model when analysing how a region is constructed and how it is connected
to the observable political, legal, social, economic, cultural, educational and
administrative practices. The model consists of four interlocked stages (territorial
shaping, symbolic shaping, institutional shaping, and establishment of region) that
can be abstracted for analytical purposes and is tested here as a device to perceive
the importance and understand relations between the various processes contributing
to the making of the region.
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