The Myth of Japanese Homogeneity
Author: Herman W. Smith
Publisher: Nova Science Publishers
Published: 1995
Total Pages: 300
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Japan's Minorities
Author: Michael Weiner
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Published: 2009
Total Pages: 257
ISBN-13: 041577263X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKExamining the ways in which the Japanese have manipulated historical memory, the contributors reveal the presence of an underlying concept of 'Japaneseness' that excludes members of the principal minority groups in Japan.
Construction of Ethnicity and Minorities in Japan, an Examination of Nation-building and the Japanese Myth of Homogeneity
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Published: 1998
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKHegemony of Homogeneity
Author: Harumi Befu
Publisher: Japanese Society
Published: 2001
Total Pages: 204
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKNihonjinron is the Japanese term for Japanese national character, or the way the Japanese characterize themselves. Befu, a bilingual anthropologist who has studied Japan for 40 years, examines hundreds of original Japanese sources, and argues that Nihonjinron is a civil religion for the Japanese and that it responds to the country's political and economic environment. Befu is professor emeritus at Stanford University and has taught at universities in Japan, Europe, and Latin America. The book is distributed by ISBS. c. Book News Inc.
The Myth of Homogeneity
Author: Maiko Sawada
Publisher:
Published: 2008
Total Pages: 90
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKA Genealogy of 'Japanese' Self-images
Author: Eiji Oguma
Publisher: ISBS
Published: 2002
Total Pages: 486
ISBN-13: 9781876843045
DOWNLOAD EBOOKEiji Oguma demonstrates that the myth of ethnic homogeneity was not established during the Meiji period, nor during the Pacific War, but only after the end of World War II. Oguma also examines how the peoples of the Japanese colonies were viewed in prewarliterature on ethnic identity.
Multiethnic Japan
Author: John Lie
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 2009-07
Total Pages: 268
ISBN-13: 9780674040175
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMultiethnic Japan challenges the received view of Japanese society as ethnically homogeneous. Employing a wide array of arguments and evidence--historical and comparative, interviews and observations, high literature and popular culture--John Lie recasts modern Japan as a thoroughly multiethnic society. Lie casts light on a wide range of minority groups in modern Japanese society, including the Ainu, Burakumin (descendants of premodern outcasts), Chinese, Koreans, and Okinawans. In so doing, he depicts the trajectory of modern Japanese identity. Surprisingly, Lie argues that the belief in a monoethnic Japan is a post-World War II phenomenon, and he explores the formation of the monoethnic ideology. He also makes a general argument about the nature of national identity, delving into the mechanisms of social classification, signification, and identification.
An Introduction to Japanese Society
Author: Yoshio Sugimoto
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2010-06-22
Total Pages: 359
ISBN-13: 113948947X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKEssential reading for students of Japanese society, An Introduction to Japanese Society now enters its third edition. Here, internationally renowned scholar, Yoshio Sugimoto, writes a sophisticated, yet highly readable and lucid text, using both English and Japanese sources to update and expand upon his original narrative. The book challenges the traditional notion that Japan comprises a uniform culture, and draws attention to its subcultural diversity and class competition. Covering all aspects of Japanese society, it includes chapters on class, geographical and generational variation, work, education, gender, minorities, popular culture and the establishment. This new edition features sections on: Japan's cultural capitalism; the decline of the conventional Japanese management model; the rise of the 'socially divided society' thesis; changes of government; the spread of manga, animation and Japan's popular culture overseas; and the expansion of civil society in Japan.
Japan's Minorities
Author: Early Childhood Education Consultant Michael Weiner
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2003-07-13
Total Pages: 270
ISBN-13: 1134744420
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDespite a master narrative of cultural and racial homogeneity, Japan is home to diverse populations. In the face of systematic exclusions and marginalization, minority groups have consistently challenged the subordinate identities imposed by the Japanese majority. Japan's Minorities addresses a broad range of issues associated with the six principal minority groups in Japan: Ainu, Burakumin, Chinese, Koreans, Nikkeijin, and Okinawans. The contributors to this volume show how an overarching discourse of homogeneity has been deployed to exclude the historical experience of minority groups in Japan. The chapters provide clear historical introductions to particular groups and place their experiences in the context of contemporary Japanese society.
Race and Migration in Imperial Japan
Author: Michael Weiner
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2013-09-27
Total Pages: 293
ISBN-13: 1136121242
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA high degree of cultural and racial homogeneity has long been associated with Japan, with its political discourse and with the lexicon of post-war Japanese scholarship. This book examines underlying assumptions. The author provides an analysis of racial discourse in Japan, its articulation and re-articulation over the past century, against the background of labour migration from the colonial periphery. He deconstructs the myth of a `Japanese race'. Michael Weiner pursues a second major theme of colonial migration; its causes and consequences. Rather than merely identifying the `push factors', the analysis focuses on the more dynamic `pull factors' that determined immigrant destinations. Similarly, rather than focusing upon the immigrant, the author examines the structural need for low-cost temporary labour that was filled by Korean immigrants.
