Transcultural Japan : at the borderlands of race, gender, and identity

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Transcultural Japan : at the borderlands of race, gender, and identity

edited by David Blake Willis and Stephen Murphy-Shigematsu

（Asia's transformations / edited by Mark Selden, 20）

Routledge, 2008

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  • : pbk

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: hbk ISBN 9780415368902

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Transcultural Japan provides a critical examination of being Other in Japan. Portraying the multiple intersections of race, ethnicity, class, and gender, the book suggests ways in which the transcultural borderlands of Japan reflect globalization in this island nation. The authors show the diversity of Japan from the inside, revealing an extraordinarily complex new society in sharp contrast to the persistent stereotypical images held of a regimented, homogeneous Japan. Unsettling as it may be, there are powerful arguments here for looking at the meanings of globalization in Japan through these diverse communities and individuals. These are not harmonious, utopian communities by any means, as they are formed in contexts, both global and local, of unequal power relations. Yet it is also clear that the multiple processes associated with globalization lead to larger hybridizations, a global melange of socio-cultural, political, and economic forces and the emergence of what could be called trans-local Creolized cultures. Transcultural Japan reports regional, national, and cosmopolitan movements. Characterized by global flows, hybridity, and networks, this book documents Japan's new lived experiences and rapid metamorphosis. Accessible and engaging, this broad-based volume is an attractive and useful resource for students of Japanese culture and society, as well as being a timely and revealing contribution to research scholars and for those interested in race, ethnicity, cultural identities and transformations.

Table of Contents

Part 1: Introduction 1. Transcultural Japan: Metamorphosis in the Cultural Borderlands and Beyond Part 2: Gender and Identity 2. A Perfectly Ordinary Ethnic Korean in Japan: Reprise 3. Between Two Shores: Transnational Projects and Filipina Wives in/from Japan 4. Gender, Modernity, and Eroticized Internationalism in Japan Part 3: Diaspora and Mobility 5. Between Privilege and Prejudice: Japanese-Brazilian Migrants in "The Land of Yen and the Ancestors" 6. From Ethnic Ghetto to "Gourmet Republic": The Changing Image of Kobe's Chinatown and the Ambiguity of Being Chinese in Modern Japan 7. Okinawan Diasporic Identities: Between Being a Buffer and a Bridge Part 4: Imagining Oneself: Visibility and Invisibility 8. The Marvelous in the Real: Images of Burakumin in Nakagami Kenji's Kumano Saga 9. Positioning Oneself in the Japanese Nation State: The Hokkaido Ainu Case 10. "Becoming a Better Muslim": Identity Narratives of Muslim Foreign Workers in Japan Part 5: Transnational, Transcultural Flows 11. Dejima: Creolization and Enclaves of Difference in Transnational Japan 12. The Racialization of Japan 13. "The Invisible Man" and other Narratives of Living in the Borderlands of Race and Nation 14. Ethnoscapes and The Other in 21st Century Japan. Afterword: Marginals, Minorities, Majorities and Migrants: Studying the Japanese Borderlands in Contemporary Japan
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: pbk ISBN 9780415394345

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Historically Japan has alternated between periods of celebration of a diverse, multicultural society and severe spells of xenophobia and persecution of the Other. This collection of multidisciplinary essays re-introduces the idea of Japan as a multicultural society and reflects a rapidly changing Japan as the Japanese confront a new range of diversity in their midst. Shedding new light on the manifestations of difference in Japan from a diverse range of authors and perspectives, this extraordinary book is a study of those persons who are very much part of Japanese society today, but whose voices have long been neglected, silenced or oppressed. Written in accessible language, this broad-based volume is an attractive and useful resource for students and academics, as well as being a timely and revealing contribution to research scholars and for those interested in the phenomena of cultural identities and transformations.

Table of Contents

Foreword 1. Ethnoscapes and the Discourse of The Other in 21st Century Japan David Blake Willis 2. The Racialization of Japan William Wetherall 3. Positioning Oneself in the Japanese Nation State: The Hokkaido Ainu Case Katarina Sjoberg 4. A Perfectly Ordinary Ethnic Korean in Japan? Kyo Nobuko 5. The Marvelous in the Real: Images of Burakumin in Modern Japanese Fiction Yoshiko Yokochi Samuel 6. From Ethnic Ghetto to 'Gourmet Republic': The Changing Image of Kobe's Chinatown and the Ambiguity of Being Chinese in Modern Japan Tsu Yun Hui 7. Japanese- Brazilian Migrants in the Land of Yen and the Ancestors- Between Priviledge and Prejudice Angelo Akimitsu Ishi and Jornal Tudo Bem 8. Okinawan Diasporic Identities: Between Being a Buffer and a Bridge Wesley Ueunten 9. "Becoming a Better Muslim" Identity Narratives of Muslim Foreign Workers in Japan Akiko Onishi 10. Self as Other: Internationalism as Resistance Among Japanese Women Karen Kelsky 11. Transgressing Women: Reading Narratives of "Filipina Brides" in Japan since the 1980s Nobue Suzuki 12. Dejima: Creolization and Enclaves of Difference in Transnational Japan David Willis 13. Narratives of Living in the Borderlands of Race and Nation in Japan Stephen Murphy- Shigematsu

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