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Japan's minorities : the illusion of homogeneity

Author: Michael Weiner
Publisher: London ; New York : Routledge, 1997.
Series: Sheffield Centre for Japanese Studies/Routledge series.
Edition/Format:   Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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Despite 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,  Read more...
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Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Michael Weiner
ISBN: 0415130085 9780415130080 0415152186 9780415152181
OCLC Number: 36413777
Description: xviii, 251 p. ; 23 cm.
Contents: The invention of identity --
"self" and "other" in pre-war Japan / Michael Weiner --
Ainu, Japan's indigenous people / Richard Siddle --
Burakumin in contemporary Japan / Ian Neary --
The representation of absence and the absence of representation : Korean victims of the atom bomb / Michael Weiner --
A model minority : the Chinese community in Japan / Andrea Vasishth --
Troubled national identity--the Ryukyuans/Okinawans / Koji Taira --
Nikkeijin, the phenomenon of return migration / Yoko Sellek --Soto others and uchi others / Millie Creighton.
Series Title: Sheffield Centre for Japanese Studies/Routledge series.
Responsibility: edited by Michael Weiner.
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Despite 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.

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