Japan's household registration system and citizenship : koseki, identification and documentation / edited by David Chapman and Karl Jakob Krogness.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Chapman, David, 1961- editor.

Krogness, Karl Jakob, editor.

Series:

Routledge studies in the modern history of Asia ; 94.

Routledge studies in the modern history of Asia ; 94

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Recording and registration--Japan.

Recording and registration.

Registers of births, etc.

Recording and registration--Social aspects.

Japan.

Recording and registration--Social aspects--Japan.

Citizenship--Japan.

Citizenship.

Japan--Registers.

Registers of births, etc--Japan.

Genre:

Registers (Lists)

Physical Description:

265 pages ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Abingdon, Oxon : Routledge, 2014.

Summary:

"Japan's Household Registration System (koseki seido) is an extremely powerful state instrument, and is socially entrenched with a long history of population governance, social control and the maintenance of social order. It provides identity whilst at the same time imposing identity upon everyone registered, and in turn, the state receives validity and legitimacy from the registration of its inhabitants. The study of the procedures and mechanisms for identifying and documenting people provides an important window into understanding statecraft, and by examining the koseki system, this book provides a keen insight into social and political change in Japan.By looking through the lens of the koseki system, the book takes both an historical as well as a contemporary approach to understanding Japanese society. In doing so, it develops our understanding of contemporary Japan within the historical context of population management and social control; reveals the social effects and influence of the koseki system throughout its history; and presents new insights into citizenship, nationality and identity. Furthermore, this book develops our knowledge of state functions and indeed the nation state itself, through engaging critically with important issues relating to the koseki while at the same time providing a platform for further investigation. The contributors to this volume utilise a variety of disciplinary areas including history, gender studies, sociology, law and anthropology, and each chapter provides insights that bring us closer to a comprehensive grasp of the role, effects and historical background of what is a crucial and influential instrument of the Japanese state.This book will be of great interest to students and scholars of Japanese history, Japanese culture and society, Japanese studies, Asian social policy and demography more generally. "-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Introduction / David Chapman and Karl Jakob Krogness

Household registration and the dismantling of Edo outcaste cultures / Timothy Amos

Early modern Osaka hinin and population registers / Takshi Tsukada

The development of the modern koseki / Kenji Mori

Creating spatial hierarchies : the koseki, early international marriage and intermarriage / Itsuko Kamoto

Managing "strangers" and "undecidables" : population registration in Meiji Japan / David Chapman

Sub-nationality in the Japanese empire : a social history of the koseki in colonial Korea 1910-1945 / Michael Kim

Blood and country : chugoku zanryu koji, nationality and the koseki / Tong Yan and Shinichi Asano

Jus koseki : Japanese citizenship as administrative household membership / Karl Jakob Krogness

Gender identity, the koseki and human rights / Shuhei Ninomiya

Sexual citizenship at the intersections of patriarchy and heternormativity: same-sex partnerships and the koseki / Claire Maree

Birth registration and the right to have rights : the changing family and the unchanging koseki / Vera Mackie

Officially invisible : the mukokusekisha (stateless) and mukosekisha (unregistered) / Lara Chen

Challenging the heteronormative family in the koseki : surname, legitimacy, and unmarried mothers / Linda White.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780415705448

0415705444

OCLC:

863043595