![]() ![]() Imperial Japan’s colonial expansion into neighbouring territories brought different challenges to population governance. Later, the enterprise of building order was expanded to an even grander scale to cover increasing and diversifying numbers of people in an ever-expanding territory. Initially, this order-making process included the identification and documentation through the koseki of all inhabitants of what would later become referred to as naichi (the inner territories). The modernizing of Japan during the Meiji Period was seen by elites as the shedding of feudal backwardness and a distancing from the isolationist, irrational and chaotic past. The jinshin koseki provided an efficient way of demarcating sovereign boundaries and demographically defining the population. ![]() The creation of order was primary to Japan’s trajectory in becoming a nation and modern state. ![]() The keeping of accurate records of families and individuals, firstly allowed the state to protect, civilize and bring order to the disorder of the previous Tokugawa Era. The Grand State Council (dajōkan) clearly states the intention of the state in introducing the Family Registration System (koseki) in the preamble to the 1871 Koseki Law (kosekihō).
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