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Japan's Minorities: The illusion of homogeneity

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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.

Author(s): Michael Weiner
Series: Sheffield Centre for Japanese Studies/Routledge Series
Edition: 1
Publisher: Routledge
Year: 1997

Language: English
Pages: 272

Book Cover......Page 1
Title......Page 4
Contents......Page 5
List of tables......Page 9
List of contributors......Page 10
Introduction......Page 12
The invention of identity: 'Self' and 'Other' in pre-war Japan......Page 20
Ainu: Japan's indigenous people......Page 36
Burakumin in contemporary Japan......Page 69
The representation of absence and the absence of representation: Korean victims of the atomic bomb......Page 98
A model minority: the Chinese community in Japan......Page 127
Troubled national identity: the Ryukyuans/Okinawans......Page 159
Nikkeijin: the phenomenon of return migration......Page 197
Soto Others and uchi Others: imaging racial diversity, imagining homogeneous Japan......Page 230
Index......Page 258