Multiethnic Japan

multiethnic 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. korean Quarterly john Lie Presents A Lively Examination Of Modem Japanese Attitudes On Ethnicity In multi-ethnic Japan . He Has An Insider's View, Having Been In Japan And Lived The Experience. He Has Researched The Facts, And Made Case Studies. In Addition, His Book Is Very Readable, And Quotable...lie's Critical View Provokes Thought, And Generates Eventual Change. — Bill Drucker Multiethnic 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.--jacket. John Lie. Includes Bibliographical References (p. 189-240) And Index. Annotation Multiethnic 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 __Multiethnic 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. 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. Contents 8 Preface 10 A Note on Terminology 14 Introduction 18 1. The Second Opening of Japan 23 2. The Contemporary Discourse of Japaneseness 44 3. Pop Multiethnicity 70 4. Modern Japan, Multiethnic Japan 100 5. Genealogies of Japanese Identity and Monoethnic Ideology 128 6. Classify and Signify 159 Conclusion 187 Appendix: Multilingual Japan 202 References 206 Index 258 This work challenges the view of Japanese society as essentially homogeneous. The author analyzes the range of ethnic minorities within modern Japan, depicting the trajectory of Japanese identity. He argues that the creation of the monoethnic ideology came after World War II In the late 1980s the influx of foreign workers became the most widely discussed social issue in Japan.