Diversity in Japanese culture and language
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Bibliographic Information
Diversity in Japanese culture and language
(Japanese studies)
Routledge, 2011, c1995
- : hbk
Available at 3 libraries
  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
Note
Originally published: London : Kegan Paul International, 1995
Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
This is the first in-depth study of the other Japan - the diverse and complex culture that belies the conventional portrayal of Japan as a homogenous entity. Moving, fascinating and surprising, this book sets out the largely untold story of the cultural, ethnic and linguistic diversity found in Japan today, where members of marginal societal groups are ignored by the mainstream on the grounds of physical, ethnic, religious or other differences. Among them are the Ainu, Koreans, Buraku, women, returnees and the deaf, for all of whom this work serves as a forum to give eloquent voice to their history and present situation. This unique study describes the existing plurality in Japan in order to start balancing the perspectives which currently exist in the non-Japanese literature about Japan; to challenge the myth of Japanese uniqueness by focusing on very common experiences that Japanese people share with peoples in other parts of the world; and above all, to counteract the common tendency to see complexity as a threat by illustrating the value to society as a whole of diversity and cultural plurality.
Table of Contents
PART ONE INTRODUCTION 1 Culture and Diversity in Japan PART TWO HISTORICAL AND CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORKS 2 Nationalism and Cultural Pluralism in Modern Japan: S6etsu Yanagi and the Mingei Movement 3 The Sociology of Ethnocentrism in Japan 4 The Ainu: Construction of an Image 5 The Right Stuff: Towards an Environmental Linguistics PART THREE OTHER VOICES: AINU, KOREAN AND PEOPLE OF THE BURAKU 6 Minority Dynamics in Japan: Towards a Society of Sharing 7 Deprivation and Resistance: Ainu Movements in Modern Japan With My Heritage of Pride and Struggle 8 Maintaining Culture and Language: Koreans in Osaka 9 The Confidence to Live! Experiencing the Buraku Liberation Movement PART FOUR OTHER VOICES: FAMILIES, SIGNS AND DIFFERENCES 10 Woman as Outsider: Sexuality, Society and the Familial Mind 11 The Right to Speak: Language Maintenance in Japan 12 A Non-Japanese Japanese: On Being a Returnee 13 The Deaf and Their Language: Progress Towards Equality PART FIVE AFTERWORD 14 The Politics of Diversity in the Nation-State
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