Race for Empire: Koreans as Japanese and Japanese as Americans During World War II - Paperbackby Takashi Fujitani (Author) Race for Empire offers a profound and challenging reinterpretation of nationalism, racism, and wartime mobilization during the Asia Pacific war. In parallel case studies of Japanese Americans mobilized to serve in the United States Army and of Koreans recruited or drafted into the Japanese military T. Fujitani examines the U. S. and Japanese empires as they struggled to manage racialized populations while waging total war.