@article{oai:nichibun.repo.nii.ac.jp:00000251,
 author = {TIERNEY, Robert},
 journal = {Nichibunken Japan review : Journal of the International Research Center for Japanese Studies},
 month = {Jan},
 note = {Japan was the most important non-Western colonial power in the modern period. In this paper, I will shed light on the “eyeglasses” of Japanese colonialismby examining the South Seas (Nan’yō) literature of Nakajima Atsushi. Uponreturning to Japan from a short stint as editor of Japanese language textbooksin Japanese-ruled Micronesia in 1941, Nakajima wrote two collections of storiesbased on his experiences, Nantōtan (Tales of the Southern Islands) and Kanshō(Atolls). The fifth work in the latter collection is a sketch called “Mariyan,” aportrait of a young Micronesian intellectual. The narrator of this story starts by offering the reader a compendium of colonial discourses, or stereotypes, on Nan’yō in order to “explain” Mariyan. Yet he is at the same time pained by the resemblances he discovers between himself and Mariyan: both are objects of a Western orientalizing gaze and hybrid products of cultural colonization. In a second storyin “Atolls” called “High Noon,” a Japanese narrator looks into the sources of hisown stereotypes of the South Seas and attempts to “decolonize” his vision. OgumaEiji argues that Japanese imperialism, as the first modern example of a “coloredimperialism,” differs in many ways from the Western pattern. By studyingNakajima’s Micronesian stories, I explore both the complexity and inconsistencies of Japan’s imperial gaze.},
 pages = {149--196},
 title = {The Colonial Eyeglasses of Nakajima Atsushi},
 volume = {17},
 year = {2005}
}