Cultural and social division in contemporary Japan : rethinking discourses of inclusion and exclusion / edited by Yoshikazu Shiobara, Kohei Kawabata and Joel Matthews.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Shiobara, Yoshikazu, 1973- editor.

Kawabata, Kohei, editor.

Matthews, Joel, editor.

Series:

Routledge contemporary Japan series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Social stratification--Japan.

Social stratification.

Social conflict--Japan.

Social conflict.

Culture conflict--Japan.

Culture conflict.

Social conditions.

Japan--Social conditions--21st century.

Japan.

Physical Description:

vii, 277 pages : illustrations (black and white), maps ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2020.

Summary:

"Today, as with most advanced capitalist countries, serious social divides occasioned by the impacts of globalization and neoliberalism have destabilized Japanese society. This book explores not only how Japanese society is diversified and unequal, but also how diversity and inequality have caused people to divide into separate realities from which conflict and violence have emerged. It empirically examines the current situation while considering the historical development of exclusionism from the interdisciplinary viewpoints of history, policy studies, cultural studies, sociology, and cultural anthropology. In addition to analyzing the realities of division and exclusionism, the authors propose theoretical alternatives to overcome such cultural and social divides"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Part 1 : Context and background. Introduction: social division and exclusionism in contemporary Japan / Yoshikazu Shiobara

Inclusion and exclusion in neoliberalizing Japan / Noah McCormack and Kohei Kawabata

Part 2 : Exclusionism and ethnic minorities. Historical structures of exclusion and the colonial Korean (Zainichi) diaspora in modern Japan / Joel Matthews

Ethnic "Korean schools" confront discrimination, hate speech and hate crime: exclusionism from "above and below" in contemporary Japan / Wooki Park-Kim (translation: Joel Matthews)

Backlash: hate speech, Ainu indigenous denial and historical revisionism in post-DRIPS Japan / Mark Winchester

Mobilizing places: beyond the politics of essentialism in the Okinawa anti-base struggle / Shinnosuke Takahashi

Exclusionism targeting international marriage couples and their children / Lawrence Yoshitaka Shimoji and Chiho Ogaya

Expanding exclusion: from undocumented residents into "Imposter" residents / Eriko Suzuki

On the refugee and asylum seeker situation in Japan from the standpoint of social exclusion / Eri Ishikawa (translation: Ariel Acosta)

Part 3 : Exclusionism and social minorities. Exclusionism and the Burakumin: literacy movement, legislative countermeasures and the Sayama incident / Machiko Ishikawa

Heterosexual marriage and childbirth as a "Natural course of life": parenthood as experienced by the generation before the "LGBT boom" / Michiko Sambe (translation: Minata Hara)

The social activism of disabled people in postwar Japan: eugenics, exclusion and discrimination / Kohei Inose

Discrimination of evacuees in the wake of the Fukushima nuclear disaster / Shun Harada

A coalition of radicals and housing first practices in homeless movements? / Teruhiro Yamakita

Part 4 : Theoretical alternatives for overcoming exclusionism. Rethinking the principles of "kyōsei" in Japan: intersections between oldcomers and newcomers / Kohei Kawabata and Naoko Yamamoto

A theoretical perspective for overcoming exclusionism / Yoshikazu Shiobara and Mikako Suzuki.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Electronic version: Cultural and social division in contemporary Japan.

ISBN:

9781138310391

1138310395

OCLC:

1107144106