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“Moderate” vs “Extremist” Muslims? How a decontextualized distinction can trigger a contradictory assessment of security and radicalization in Malaysia International Journal of Asian Studies Pub Date : 2024-03-11 Athanasios Gkoutzioulis
This article demonstrates how the application of a broad and decontextualized distinction between “moderate” and “extremist” Muslims can undermine our assessment of an Islamic identity, security, and radicalization. It compares how this distinction has been used by the British colonial administrators (in Raffles, Crawfurd, Marsden, and Swettenham) in nineteenth-century Malaya and by Malaysia's Prime
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Involvement of Vietnamese elders in economic activities in the lens of family ties, low institutional coverage, and gender identity International Journal of Asian Studies Pub Date : 2024-02-13 Tran Thi Minh Thi
In Vietnam, for a long time, family is considered as being significant for economic, instrumental, social, emotional, and care support for older adults due to strong filial piety, high family values, low institutional coverage, and limited social services, given that the majority of older adults are living in family-based communities. Recently, due to increasing migration, nuclearization, and individualization
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Ottoman subjects and prisoners of war in the Semirechye Oblast during the First World War International Journal of Asian Studies Pub Date : 2024-02-12 Nurzhigit Abdukadyrov, Tolkyn Mukhazhanova, Gulmira Sabdenova
Amidst the upheavals of the First World War, a considerable number of prisoners of war from the Ottoman Empire found themselves in Russia, resettled primarily in the central regions of the Russian Empire. The regions of Volga, Siberia, Ural, and Western Siberia played host to Ottoman prisoners, who were accommodated in camps and barracks across cities and rural areas. Over time, a noteworthy migration
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Regulating smoking in Japan: from manners to rules International Journal of Asian Studies Pub Date : 2024-02-12 Celeste L. Arrington
Opinions vary in Japan on whether smoking is deviant today, but the behavior, once widely accepted, faces increasing regulation. Recent reforms, moving beyond reliance on nonsmokers' tolerance and smokers' etiquette, impose stricter and more detailed rules on smoking, along with penalties for noncompliance. As the Japanese government's promotional materials note, the reforms move “from manners to rules”
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Lee Ufan's ambivalent otherness and art historiography International Journal of Asian Studies Pub Date : 2024-01-26 Sohyun Park
This article aims to reexamine the relationship between the artist Lee Ufan and nationalist art history through his idea of “ambivalent otherness,” which he defined as both “suffering” and “power.” Traditional art history is established upon a nationalist framework that emphasizes the artists' nationality, leading to the marginalization of national others at the border. As a zainichi Korean, Lee has
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“Morbid spectacle”: allegorical dialectics of mammonism, humanity, and necropower in Squid Game (2021) International Journal of Asian Studies Pub Date : 2024-01-10 Eunhee Park
This article uses Mbembe's concept of necropolitics as an analytical category to examine the representations of necropower in Squid Game. In the global “organ economy,” organ sellers decide to supply, and brokers then mediate between them and buyers. In contrast, South Korean loan sharks commodify delinquent debtors' organs by forcing them to sign a body waiver as collateral. Recent South Korean dramas
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Is rape a crime in Japan? International Journal of Asian Studies Pub Date : 2024-01-08 David T. Johnson
Japan is often said to have one of the lowest rape rates in the world, and Japanese police claim to solve 97 percent of rape cases. But in reality, only 5–10 percent of rape victims report it to police, and police record half or less of reported cases while prosecutors charge about one-third of recorded cases. The result of this process of caseload attrition is that for every 1,000 rapes in Japan,
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The Poona Pact, Indian National Congress and the descriptive and substantive representation of Dalits in colonial India International Journal of Asian Studies Pub Date : 2023-12-04 Sujay Biswas
Within the prevailing historiographical tradition of modern India, critics see the Poona Pact as having “disenfranchised” Dalits, which they attribute to the fact that, due to the numerical superiority of caste Hindus, the implementation of joint electorates resulted in the consolidation of power within the Indian National Congress: the party that, critics allege, protected the interests of the caste
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The agent, the structure, and space in Japan's foreign relations: rethinking international political dynamics as Aidagara International Journal of Asian Studies Pub Date : 2023-10-16 Taku Tamaki
This article leverages Watsuji Tetsurō's idea of aidagara – “inter-relationships” – to better appreciate the interpenetration of space and relationships in Japanese foreign policy narratives. I set Watsuji's philosophical framework against Japanese foreign policy narratives referring to various spaces as a case study to emphasizing the interplay of space and relationships in Japanese diplomatic efforts
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Anti-Japanism as a strategy for reshaping national identity in post-liberation South Korean fictions (1945–1948) International Journal of Asian Studies Pub Date : 2023-08-03 Jeonggu Kang
This article argues that South Koreans' anti-Japanism in the post-liberation period can be regarded as an ideological construction, which was inevitably required to reshape their national identity, rather than as a reasonable and serious critical consideration of colonial Japan. Anti-Japanism functions as an identification framework in an era when Koreans needed to develop a new discourse which reflects
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Constrained river, constrained choices: seasonal floods and colonial authority in the Red River Delta International Journal of Asian Studies Pub Date : 2023-06-21 Corey Ross
This article examines the problem of flooding in colonial Tonkin through two interrelated lenses: the history of disasters as social and political phenomena, and the history of technology and the constraints that shape its use. With a gradient ten times steeper than the Mekong, the Red River (Sông Cái in Vietnamese) is notorious for its huge seasonal fluctuations and violent floods. For centuries,
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Shirin Nezammafi and the unmaking of postcolonial Japan International Journal of Asian Studies Pub Date : 2023-06-08 Amin Ghadimi
This article takes up the short work of fiction Salam, written in Japanese in 2006 by Shirin Nezammafi, and deploys it as a primary source in the history of the Japanese present. Salam tells the tale of Layla, an Afghan migrant detained in and then expelled from Japan in 2001. The article argues that Salam exposes the unmaking of postcolonial Japan: if postcolonial Japan meant a territorial, sovereign
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Interweaving influences and adaptations: sartorial endeavors of Okakura Kakuzō and M. K. Gandhi International Journal of Asian Studies Pub Date : 2023-03-06 Maumita Banerjee
Universalism, as a historical category, played an important ideological role in forging political solidarities beyond national boundaries in the modern period. The paper traces this idea in modern Asia through the sartorial styles of two intellectuals, Okakura Kakuzō and Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi. Clothing as a medium of inquiry offers a unique scholarly perspective to articulate the role of universalism
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Kim Chae-gyu syndrome: South Korean politics and divergent filmic portrayals of the assassination of Park Chung Hee International Journal of Asian Studies Pub Date : 2023-01-11 Sungik Yang
The assassination of the dictator Park Chung Hee by his intelligence chief Kim Chae-gyu was a momentous events in South Korean history, which garnered two feature-length filmic depictions released fifteen years apart in the first two decades of the twenty-first century. The President's Last Bang, released in 2005, was an irreverent black comedy in which all those involved that fateful evening were
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Language and cultural capital in the discursive maintenance of Japanese identity International Journal of Asian Studies Pub Date : 2023-01-11 Paul Capobianco
This paper explains how the possession of linguistic and cultural capital, real and imagined, works to “make” people Japanese and reify the boundary of Japanese identity. Drawing on case studies of celebrities with multiple heritage and ethnographic data, this paper shows how discursive associations with possessing cultural capital (re)create boundaries of Japanese identity, incorporating potential
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“The way to things”: contentions over materiality and politics in the non-west between Kobayashi Hideo and Maruyama Masao International Journal of Asian Studies Pub Date : 2022-11-02 Nobutaka Otobe
The recent surge in materialist thought, namely New Materialism, has significant implications for political theory. They challenge the fundamental dichotomy upheld in the modern West between human agency and inert nature by revealing the affective quality of nature and granting it the status of the agency. However, does the non-West face risks if it attempts to overcome the modern Western notion of
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The Manchukuo Young Girl Envoys and their visit to Japan: an underestimated prelude of Japan–Manchukuo interactions, June 22–July 12, 1932 International Journal of Asian Studies Pub Date : 2022-10-26 Jianda Yuan
This study analyzes the little known Manchukuo Young Girl Envoys – Manchukuo's first government-appointed diplomats – and their official visit to Japan between June 22 and July 12, 1932. Existing studies on the Envoys tend to interpret them from an angle of contemporary Japanese people's national sentiment and deem their visit to Japan a show that the Japanese authorities in Manchukuo and Japan orchestrated
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Independence and constitutionalism in Egypt 1919–1922 International Journal of Asian Studies Pub Date : 2022-07-18 Misako Ikeda
This paper aims to provide a new constitutional perspective on the Egyptian political process from the end of World War I to its independence in 1922. Egyptian historical research on the same period has been conducted mainly from a nationalist perspective. However, as Egypt had a long history of constitutionalism that had developed in unison with nationalism since the 1870s, Egyptian nationalists simultaneously
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The rise and development of the platform economy in South Korea International Journal of Asian Studies Pub Date : 2022-07-04 Kim Kyung-Pil
Noting the growing importance of online platforms, this paper discusses the rise and development of the platform economy in Korea, defining platforms as a business model and arguing that the platform economy requires financing, an environment for Internet use and users, services, and content. Many believe that the platform economy's development is a natural outcome of technical innovation. However
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Immigration and settlement of the children of Japanese war orphans left behind in China: Policy development, family strategy and life course International Journal of Asian Studies Pub Date : 2022-02-23 Longlong Zhang
This article takes a life course perspective to examine the immigration and settlement processes experienced by children of Japanese war orphans left behind in China. Due to legal, social and biological factors, the lifecourses of immigrants are analysed in four groups, determined their age and, concomitantly their year of immigration. “Child immigrants” immigrated by the mid-1980s at school age and
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A genealogy of tiger nationalism in Korea: post-colonial discourse, Ch'oe Namsŏn and the Seoul Olympics International Journal of Asian Studies Pub Date : 2022-02-21 Hyosook Kim, Rebekah Clements, Mina Rhyu
This study applies a genealogical mode of enquiry to the history of tigers as a symbol of Korea and the Korean people. The zoomorphic idea of Korea as a tiger is conventionally traced to the writings of the intellectual, Ch'oe Namsŏn (1890–1957). However, we argue that while Ch'oe was the first to link tigers with modern Korean nationalism, low levels of literacy and Ch'oe's later ambiguous status
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Opposing Democracy in the Digital Age: The Yellow Shirts in Thailand By Aim Sinpeng. University of Michigan Press, 2021. 270 pages. Hardback, $75.00, ISBN: 9780472132355. Paper book, $29.95, ISBN: 9780472038480. Ebook, $29.95, ISBN: 9780472128563 — Corrigendum International Journal of Asian Studies Pub Date : 2022-02-15 Michael K. Connors
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Global East Asia: Into the Twenty-First Century Edited by Frank N. Pieke and Koichi Iwabuchi. University of California Press, 2021. 264 pages. Hardback, US$85.00, ISBN: 9780520299863. Paperback, US$34.95, ISBN: 9780520299870. Ebook, US$34.95, ISBN: 9780520971424 International Journal of Asian Studies Pub Date : 2022-01-31 Bruce Stronach
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Britain’s Second Embassy to China: Lord Amherst’s “Special Mission” to the Jiaqing Emperor in 1816 By Caroline M. Stevenson. Canberra: Australian National University Press, 2021. pp. 404. Hardback, AUS$65.00, ISBN: 9781760464080. Ebook, open access, ISBN: 9781760464097. International Journal of Asian Studies Pub Date : 2022-01-25 Peter J. Kitson
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The Rohingya Crisis: Analyses, Responses and Peacebuilding Avenues By Kawser Ahmed and Helal Mohiuddin. Maryland, USA and London, UK: Lexington Books, 2020. p. 386. Hardback, £92.00, ISBN: 978-1-4985-8574-3. Paperback, $42.99, ISBN: 978-1-4985-8576-7. Ebook, £31.00, ISBN: 978-1-4985-8575-0 International Journal of Asian Studies Pub Date : 2021-11-10 Patricia Hynes
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The Making of a Periphery Revisited International Journal of Asian Studies Pub Date : 2021-11-08 Ulbe Bosma
Many books have been written about the incorporation of the Caribbean region, South Asia, Africa and Latin America into the global economy. Remarkably, few have dealt with Island Southeast Asia or Maritime Southeast Asia as a macro-region. For the Caribbean nations, it has been amply discussed how the legacies of the plantation economies consisted of meagre economic growth and massive unemployment
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Opposing Democracy in the Digital Age: The Yellow Shirts in Thailand By Aim Sinpeng. University of Michigan Press, 2021. 270 pages. Hardback, $75.00, ISBN: 9780472132355. Paper book, $29.95, ISBN: 9780472038480. Ebook, $29.95, ISBN: 9780472128563 International Journal of Asian Studies Pub Date : 2021-10-06 Michael K. Connors
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The Belt and Road Initiative and the Future of Regional Order in the Indo-Pacific Edited by Michael Clark, Matthew Sussex and Nick Bisley. Lexington Books, 2020. 254 pp. ISBN: 978-1-4985-8275-9 (hardback $95.00), 978-1-4985-8276-6 (ebook $45.00) International Journal of Asian Studies Pub Date : 2021-09-30 Kristin Waage,Petter Y. Lindgren
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A rejoinder International Journal of Asian Studies Pub Date : 2021-09-13 Filomeno V. Aguilar
In his response to my review of his book, Ulbe Bosma reiterates that high demographic growth and the consequent abundance of surplus labor as well as local systems of labor control were important factors in the peripheralization of Island Southeast Asia. Colonialism itself, he argues, is not responsible for the making of a periphery.
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Indonesians and their Arab world: guided mobility among labor migrants and Mecca pilgrims By Mirjam Lücking. Cornell University Press, 2021. 276 pages. Hardback, $115, ISBN-13: 978-1501753114. Paperback, $28.95, ISBN-13: 978-1501753121. Ebook, $13.99, ISBN-13: 978-1501753138. International Journal of Asian Studies Pub Date : 2021-08-19 Sumanto Al Qurtuby
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Toward a genealogy of the police idea in imperial Japan: a synthesis International Journal of Asian Studies Pub Date : 2021-08-18 Max Ward
This paper explores how Japanese officials and others conceptualized police power at particular junctures in imperial Japanese history (1868–1945). It does so by synthesizing prior scholarship on the Japanese police into a broader genealogy of the police idea in prewar Japan, beginning with the first translations and explanations of police in the Meiji period, the changing perceptions of the police
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Displaced peoples and the continued legacy of the Pacific War: Korean repatriation and the danger element International Journal of Asian Studies Pub Date : 2021-08-06 Mark E. Caprio
The battles of the Pacific War formally ended between mid-August and early September, 1945. However, the declarations of peace and surrender ceremonies that occurred during this time did not end informal battles across the Asian continent. Renegade Japanese military personnel refused to lay down their arms and repatriate quietly to their country. Some combed the waters between Japan and Korea in search
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War and peace in liberated North Korea: Soviet military administration and the creation of North Korean police force in 1945 International Journal of Asian Studies Pub Date : 2021-06-15 Vasilii Lebedev
The North Korean police were arguably one of the most important organisations in liberated North Korea. It was instrumental in stabilising the North Korean society and eventually became one of the backbones for both the new North Korean regime and its military force. Scholars of different political orientation have attempted to reconstruct its early history leading to a set of views ranging from the
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Further thoughts on Asian Studies “inside-out” International Journal of Asian Studies Pub Date : 2021-06-10 Allan Punzalan Isaac, Johan Mathew, Anjali Nerlekar, Paul Schalow, Tamara Sears
In response to Sato and Sonoda's “Asian Studies ‘inside out’: research agenda for the development of Global Asian Studies,” members of the Global Asias Collaborative at Rutgers University – comprised of a diverse group of scholars of Asia and the Asian diaspora located in history, literature, art history, geography, among other disciplines – offer responses to this generative prompt to remap the place
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Asian studies “inside-out”: a research agenda for the development of Global Asian Studies International Journal of Asian Studies Pub Date : 2021-06-10 Jin Sato, Shigeto Sonoda
New areas of research and education are emerging under the banner of Global Asian Studies (GAS). This paper examines the intellectual background of the rise of GAS and proposes a research agenda for the further development of GAS to facilitate the extraction of globally relevant findings with the potential to restore an intellectual foundation for connectedness in an increasingly divided world. The
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Beyond “imagined” nostalgia: Gunsan's heritagization of Japanese colonial architecture in South Korea International Journal of Asian Studies Pub Date : 2021-06-10 Hyun Kyung Lee
In South Korea, romanticization of the era of Japanese colonial rule (1910–1945) has long been taboo: the period is widely regarded as one of the most painful and shameful parts of South Korean history. However, during the past decade unexpected cracks have appeared in established national narratives on the colonial period. This paper explores the dissonance between long-standing national narratives
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Anglo–Vietnamese diplomatic relationship in the seventeenth century: the case of the English East India Company International Journal of Asian Studies Pub Date : 2021-06-02 Ngoc Dung Tran
Drawing on primary materials from the English East India Company (EIC) archives in the British Library (London, UK), this article investigates the early diplomatic encounters between England and Vietnam (Tonkin and Cochinchina) in the seventeenth century. Previous studies have mostly focused on the English trade in Vietnam in that period and their diplomatic missions from the late eighteenth century
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Nexus of self-organization: the expansion of collective responsibility networks among boatmen in nineteenth-century Chongqing International Journal of Asian Studies Pub Date : 2021-05-24 Yiying Pan
This article investigates the collective responsibility organizations among boatmen in nineteenth-century Chongqing, when the city became one of the most important metropolises on the southwest Qing frontier. It also introduces two successive turning points in self-organization that were associated with two different classes of boatmen – skippers and sailors. First, in 1803, skippers gained the authority
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India and the pandemic: democratic governance at crossroads International Journal of Asian Studies Pub Date : 2021-05-17 Sujay Ghosh
Covid-19 seems to have unlocked the reality of democracy's ongoing tension in many parts of the world, including India. The present government, led by Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party, enjoys absolute majority in the lower House of Samshad (Indian Parliament); thus satisfies WHO requirement of strong political leadership for meeting the challenge of Covid-19 pandemic. Through analysis of various
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Dragon King in a contentious sea: Sino–Japanese intercultural theatre in 1989 International Journal of Asian Studies Pub Date : 2021-05-14 Josh Stenberg, Tove Björk
Interculturalism in theatre, although much critiqued, is an inevitable category for understanding theatre practices and histories. Critical approaches have highlighted the complicity of “hegemonic” Euro-American-led theatre with imperialist structures. Newer critiques tend to focus on encounters in European languages in multicultural cities, and to posit multilateral non-Western collaborations as liberated
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A “K” to bridge Korea and the world: the state-led formulation of K-lit and its contradictions International Journal of Asian Studies Pub Date : 2021-05-11 Bo-Seon Shim
This study examines the activity of the Literature Translation Institute of Korea (LTI), a South Korean state agency promoting Korean literature internationally through translation. Analyzing LTI programs and participants in LTI policymaking and implementation, I advocate reconsideration of the conventional theorization of the state as either “strong” or “weak” in its control over national culture
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Disabled veterans and their families: daily life in Japan during WWII International Journal of Asian Studies Pub Date : 2021-04-20 Toru Imajoh
This study aimed to provide insight into the daily lives of disabled Japanese veterans and their families during World War II (WWII). After the start of the Second Sino-Japanese War, the Japanese government expanded the conscription system in order to enable large-scale mobilization while providing comprehensive military support led by the Ministry of Health and Welfare. The top priority was to create
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Complex transformation of divorce in Vietnam under the forces of modernization and individualism – ADDENDUM International Journal of Asian Studies Pub Date : 2021-04-12 Tran Thi Minh Thi
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Complex transformation of divorce in Vietnam under the forces of modernization and individualism International Journal of Asian Studies Pub Date : 2021-03-23 Tran Thi Minh Thi
After more than four decades since its reunification since 1975, Vietnam has achieved remarkable results in social and economic development. With the rapid speed of recent modernization, society has loosened numerous old values related to the family and promoted individual freedoms. Marriage and family affairs, including divorce, have modernized with liberal characteristics. The paper examines the
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The 2018 and 2019 Indonesian Elections: Identity Politics and Regional Perspectives By Leonard C. Sebastian and Alexander R. Arifianto. London: Routledge, 2020. Text Pp. xiii + 220, paper £120.00, cloth £33.29 ISBN 13: 9780367467807 (hardback); 9781003031000 (ebook). International Journal of Asian Studies Pub Date : 2021-03-22 Yohanes Sulaiman
a blessing in disguise. More than other large-scale infrastructural projects, the canal to Lake Biwa absorbed government resources. Initially intended as an encouragement of transportation and in powering water wheels, its original goals quickly became obsolete. Trains became the favorite mode of transportation with the construction of Kyoto Station. Canal water, however, found alterative usage. The