Multiethnic Japan / John Lie.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lie, John.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Noncitizens--Japan.

Noncitizens.

Japan--Ethnic relations.

Japan.

Japan--Civilization--1868-.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (265 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, 2001.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Preface

A Note on Terminology

Introduction

1. The Second Opening of Japan

2. The Contemporary Discourse of Japaneseness

3. Pop Multiethnicity

4. Modern Japan, Multiethnic Japan

5. Genealogies of Japanese Identity and Monoethnic Ideology

6. Classify and Signify

Conclusion

Appendix: Multilingual Japan

References

Index

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (p. 189-240) and index.

ISBN:

9780674265448

0674265440

9780674263840

0674263847

9780674040175

0674040171

OCLC:

449946442