Provides clear historical introductions to the six principal ethnic minority groups in Japan, including the Ainu, Chinese, Koreans and Okinawans, and discusses their place in contemporary Japanese society.
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Japan's Minorities: The Illusion of Homogeneity puts the lie to Japanese assertions of racial purity by providing an excellent overview of the subject Asian Thought and Society.
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Michael Weiner is Professor of Modern Japanese History and Director of International Studies at Soka University of America
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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
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better with time,
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This review is from: Japan's Minorities: The illusion of homogeneity (Sheffield Centre for Japanese Studies/Routledge Series) (Paperback)
I read this book as an undergrad, and was impressed overall with the clarity and sensitivity of the writing. Though I admit to being less than interested in some of the topics covered, and to being somewhat cold to the loads of statistical data brought in in some places, I especially find now that Michael Weiner's introduction and chapter on "The Invention of Identity," and Millie Creighton's excellent article "Soto Others and Uchi Others" reverberate more with time. Weiner provides a great summary of the history of the making of "Japan" as we think of it today, and I find myself going back to it often as I read other books.
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fascinating though incomplete,
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This review is from: Japan's Minorities: The illusion of homogeneity (Sheffield Centre for Japanese Studies/Routledge Series) (Hardcover)
As a member of a minority group in Japan whose existence was unexplored by the contributing authors, I was somewhat dismayed upon reading my copy. The topics addressed in this book made for fascinating reading. One would hope that future editions would include a chapter,or perhaps more than a passing reference to the problems of the Konketsuji, or mixed race groups of Japan, whose members include some of those whom the Japanese most despise and who face some of the more insidious forms of discrimination in Japan.
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cultural nationalism, zainichi community, zainichi population, ethnic return migration, zainichi identity, nikkeijin children, alien registration system, nikkeijin workers, buraku communities, buraku discrimination, buraku problem, buraku issue, outcaste communities, leprosy sufferers, nationality clause, unskilled foreign workers Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
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cultural nationalism, zainichi community, zainichi population, ethnic return migration, zainichi identity, nikkeijin children, alien registration system, nikkeijin workers, buraku communities, buraku discrimination, buraku problem, buraku issue, outcaste communities, leprosy sufferers, nationality clause, unskilled foreign workers Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
United States, New York, World War Two, University of California Press, Konketsuji Shidó Kiroku, Zainichi Koreans, Asahi Shinbun, African American, Mainichi Shinbun, Iwanami Shoten, Liberty Osaka, Ministry of Justice, Multiethnic Japan Exhibition, Pacific War, Princeton University Press, Cold War, Utari Kyokai, United Nations, Battle of Okinawa, Ryukyu Kingdom, Harvard University Press, East Asia, Basic Law, Resident Koreans, Kang Sang-jung Browse Sample Pages:
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