Introduction. Malthusian Expansion and settler colonialism: Japan in global history; Part I. Emergence (1868-1894): 1. Japanese settler colonialism in Hokkaido and North America and the rise of Malthusian expansionism; 2. Chinese exclusion in the US and the Japanese expansion to the South Seas Hawaii and Latin America; Part II. Transformation (1894-1924): 3. The first Sino-Japanese War and the Japanese labor migration to the US; 4. Japanese rice cultivation in Texas and the paradigm shift of Malthusian expansionism; 5.

'Carrying the white man's burden': the Japanese American enlightenment campaign and the rise of Japanese farmer migration to Brazil; Part III. Culmination (1924-1945): 6. The marriage of Malthusian expansionism and Japanese agrarianism and the creation of the migration state; 7. Nagano migration and the illusion of co-existence and co-prosperity in Japanese settler colonialism in Brazil and Manchuria; Part IV. Resurgence (1945-1961): 8. The resurgence of Japanese migration to South America and the decline of Malthusian expansionism; Conclusion: re-thinking migration and settler colonialism in the modern world.