![]() This regional variant on colonial modernity is of special interest because the dominant power was a non-Western nation-state. At issue in that debate is the extent to which illiberal, coercive, and even brutal Japanese regimes-externally imposed governments general in Korea and Taiwan and an imperial police state in Japan-laid the institutional, infrastructural, and ideological groundwork for today’s democratic states of East Asia. In the past decade or so, a number of scholars have examined corporal punishment in early-twentieth-century Taiwan and Korea to position Japan and its colonies in broader discussions of colonial modernity. ![]() Second, this essay brings new sources to bear on debates about judicial flogging in the Japanese empire. Because Taiwan's colonial subjects were flogged proportionately to Korea’s-under previous regimes and during the Japanese occupation-this discrepancy requires explanation. The contrast with Korea, where such imagery proliferated, is pronounced. ![]() First, it attempts to account for the absence of mass-circulation photographs of floggings and cangues from colonial Taiwan. This essay examines corporal-punishment imagery in early-twentieth-century Japanese print media, with a focus on pictures from colonial Taiwan and Korea.
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