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Minorities and Marginality, Class and View Online Conflict in Japan (Semester 1)

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Recommended books (11 items)

Japan's minorities: the illusion of homogeneity - Michael Weiner, 2009 Book | Some of the articles in Weiner 1997 and 2009 are different. Please check the references on the reading list carefully for which edition is referred to.

Hegemony of homogeneity: an anthropological analysis of "Nihonjinron" - Harumi Befu, 2001 Book

Multicultural Japan: palaeolithic to postmodern - Donald Denoon, 1996 Book

Multiculturalism in the new Japan: crossing the boundaries within - Nelson H. H. Graburn, John Ertl, R. Kenji Tierney, 2008 Book

Ruins of identity: ethnogenesis in the Japanese Islands - Mark Hudson, c1999 Book

Multiethnic Japan - John Lie, 2001 Book

Diversity in Japanese culture and language - Gaynor Marilyn Macdonald, John Christopher Maher, 1995 Book

Re-inventing Japan: time, space, nation - Tessa Morris-Suzuki, c1998 Book

Genealogy of Japanese self-images - Eiji Oguma, 2002 Book

Transcultural Japan: at the borderlands of race, gender, and identity - David Blake Willis, Stephen Murphy-Shigematsu, 2008 Book

Cultural nationalism in contemporary Japan: a sociological enquiry - Kosaku Yoshino, 1992 Book

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Journals (7 items)

Japan forum Journal

Japanese studies Journal

Journal of Japanese studies Journal

Social science Japan journal - University of Tokyo Journal

Journal of Asian studies Journal

Ethnology Journal

Japan quarterly Journal

Internet Resources (5 items)

Japan Focus Website | Substantive, politically informed discussion, often by academics, can be found on many social topics in Japan Focus

The Japan Times | News on Japan, Business News, Opinion, Sports, Entertainment and More Website | For recent news, you could check the Japan Times online

NHK, the national broadcaster Webpage | NHK, the national broadcaster, has live feeds

NHK’s English language reports Webpage

Japan, the Japan Institute of Labour Website | For major statistical reports on labour issues in Japan. This website gives you recent statistics, government white papers, and also an on line monthly journal, which contains articles by leading Japanese experts and academics.

Week 1 : Introduction to module : the hegemony of homogeneity and alternative models for understanding the status of minorities in Japan (47 items)

Key Readings (27 items)

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Hegemony of homogeneity: an anthropological analysis of "Nihonjinron" - Befu, Harumi, 2001 Chapter | Essential | Befu, H. - Premises, Models and Ideologies

The Cambridge companion to modern Japanese culture - Sugimoto, Yoshio, 2009 Chapter | Essential | Sugimoto, Y. - Japanese culture : An overview

Maneuvers of Multiculturalism: International Representations of Minority Politics in Japan - Joseph Doyle Hankins, 2012-05 Article | Essential

Minority issues in recent news (4 items)

NHK and “Black Lives Matter”: Structural Racism in Japan | The Asia-Pacific Journal: Japan Focus Webpage

Black in Japan: Shifting the Narrative | Nippon.com Webpage

Is Japan becoming a country of immigration? | The Japan Times Webpage | Recommended

Naomi Osaka reflects on challenges of being black and Japanese - Guardian sport, 2020-08-25 Article

Further Readings (20 items)

Self and 'other' in imperial Japan - Weiner, Michael Chapter | Recommended | Weiner, M. - 'Self' and 'other' in imperial Japan

Transcultural Japan: at the borderlands of race, gender, and identity - Willis, David Blake, Murphy-Shigematsu, Stephen, 2008 Chapter | Essential | Goodman, R. - Afterword : Marginals, minorities, majorities and migrants - studying the Japanese borderlands in contemporary Japan

Multiethnic Japan and the Monoethnic Myth - Stephen Murphy-Shigematsu, 1993 Article

Nationalism in the Abe Era - Kingston, J., 2016 Article

Ainu Ethnicity and the Boundaries of the Early Modern Japanese State - David L. Howell, 1994 Article

Deracialised Race, Obscured Racism: Japaneseness, Western and Japanese Concepts of Race, and Modalities of Racism - Yuko Kawai, 2015-01-02 Article

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A companion to the anthropology of Japan - Jennifer Ellen Robertson, 2005 Chapter | Robertson, J. - Biopower : blood, kinship and eugenic marriage

Social identities of minority others in Japan: listening to the narratives of Ainu, Buraku and Zainichi Koreans - Tin Tin Htun, 2012-02-06 Article

On the margins of empire: Buraku and Korean identity in prewar and wartime Japan - Jeffrey Paul Bayliss, 2013 Book

The Making of Imperial Subjects in Okinawa - A. S. Christy, 1993 Article | Not held by Brookes library. Scan available on Moodle.

The myth of Japanese uniqueness - Peter N. Dale, 1988 Book

The construction of racial identities in China and Japan: historical and contemporary perspectives - Diko ̈ tter, Frank, c1997 Book

War without mercy: race and power in the Pacific war - Dower, John W., c1986 Book

Japan in war and peace: essays on history, culture and race - Dower, John W., 1996 Book

Embracing defeat: Japan in the aftermath of World War II - Dower, John W., 2000 Book

Peasants, rebels, and outcastes: the underside of modern Japan - Hane, Mikiso, c1982 Book

Nationalisms of Japan: managing and mystifying identity - McVeigh, Brian J., c2004 Book

A Descent into the Past: the frontier in the construction of Japanese history - Tessa Morris-Suzuki Chapter | Click on the pdf symbol to view and read the whole chapter.

Postwar Japan as history - Gordon, Andrew, c1993 Chapter | Upham, F. - Unplaced persons and movements for place

The conquest of Ainu lands: ecology and culture in Japanese expansion, 1590-1800 - Walker, Brett L., c2001 Book

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Further Readings (20 items)

The Cambridge companion to modern Japanese culture - Sugimoto, Yoshio, 2009 Chapter | Befu, H. - Concepts of Japan, Japanese culture and the Japanese

A history of nationalism in modern Japan: placing the people - Kevin Michael Doak, 2007 Book

A companion to the anthropology of Japan - Robertson, Jennifer Ellen, 2005 Chapter | Goodman, R. - Making Majority Culture

A companion to the anthropology of Japan - Jennifer Ellen Robertson, 2005 Chapter | Goodman, R. - Making Majority Culture

The Cambridge companion to modern Japanese culture - Sugimoto, Yoshio, 2009 Chapter | Kuwayama, T. - Japan's emic conceptions

Family and social policy in Japan: anthropological approaches - Goodman, Roger, Japan Anthropology Workshop, 2002 Chapter | Mackie, V. - Embodiment, citizenship and social policy in contemporary Japan

Illness and culture in contemporary Japan: an anthropological view - Ohnuki-Tierney, Emiko, 1984 Chapter | Chapter 2

Genealogy of Japanese self-images - Oguma, Eiji, 2002 Book

A companion to the anthropology of Japan - Robertson, Jennifer Ellen, 2005 Book | Roth, J. - Political and cultural perspectives on 'insider' minorities.

[An expanded version of this article is also available on line at : http://japanfocus.org/-Joshua-Roth/1723]

A companion to the anthropology of Japan - Jennifer Ellen Robertson, 2005 Book | Roth, J. - Political and cultural perspectives on 'insider' minorities. [An expanded version of this article is also available on line at : http://japanfocus.org/-Joshua-Roth/1723]

Political and Cultural Perspectives on Japan's Insider Minorities - Joshua Roth, 2005 Article | An expanded version of article which is in J. Robertson (ed.) A Companion to the Anthropology of Japan. Oxford: Blackwell, 2005

Unwrapping Japan: society and culture in anthropological perspective - Ben-Ari, Eyal, Moeran, Brian, Valentine, James, c1990 Chapter | Valentine, J. - On the borderlines : the significance of marginality in Japanese society

Cultural nationalism in contemporary Japan: a sociological enquiry - Yoshino, Kosaku, 1992 Chapter | Yoshino, K. - Ideas of national distinctiveness : comparative perspectives. pp 39-67

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The following references give a good general background on anthropological perspectives on community, identity, and nationalism (7 items)

Imagined communities: reflections on the origin and spread of nationalism - Anderson, Benedict R. O'G., 1991 Book

Imagined communities: reflections on the origin and spread of nationalism - Anderson, Benedict R. O'G., 2006 Book

The symbolic construction of community - Cohen, Anthony P., 1989 Book

Ethnicity and nationalism: anthropological perspectives - Thomas Hylland Eriksen, 2010 Book

Social identity - Jenkins, Richard, 2008 Book

Orientalism - Said, Edward W., 2003 Chapter | Said, E. - Latent and manifest Orientalism

Orientalism - Said, Edward W., [2003?] Chapter | Said, E. - Latent and manifest Orientalism

Week 2: Tracing class, the "gap society" and the economic crisis (31 items)

Key Reading (2 items)

An introduction to Japanese society - Yoshio Sugimoto, 2014 Book | Essential

Sany ̓ a blues: laboring life in contemporary Tokyo - Fowler, Edward, 1996 Book | Essential | Chapter 1: the setting

An introduction to Japanese society - Yoshio Sugimoto, ©2003 Book | Recommended | Chapter 2 : Class and stratification : an overview

Media (5 items)

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Why Japan's Homeless are Different from North America's Audio-visual document | Recommended

Inequality and Precarity in Japan: The Sorry Achievements of Abenomics | The Asia-Pacific Journal: Japan Focus Webpage | Recommended

Most people in Britain today regard themselves working class | University of Oxford Webpage | Recommended

Plight of irregular workers | The Japan Times Webpage | Optional

In Japan, 1 in 6 children lives in poverty, putting education, future at stake | The Japan Times Webpage | Recommended

Social Distancing from the Problem of Japanese Homelessness under Covid-19 | The Asia-Pacific Journal: Japan Focus Webpage | Recommended

Further Reading (22 items)

Social class in contemporary Japan: structure, sorting and strategies - Hiroshi Ishida, David H. Slater, c2010 Chapter | Recommended | Introduction

A companion to the anthropology of Japan - Jennifer Ellen Robertson, 2005 Chapter | Roberts, G. - Shifting contours of class and status

From Class Struggle to General Middle-Class Society to Divided Society: Societal Models of Inequality in Postwar Japan - D. Chiavacci, 2008 Article | Optional

Working on the Margins: Japan's Precariat and Working Poor - Obinger, Julia, 2009 Article

Precariousness in everyday life: homelessness in Japan - Patricia Kennett, Masami Iwata, 2003 Article

Homelessness in Osaka: Globalisation, Yoseba and Disemployment - Hideo Aoki, 2003-02 Article | Recommended

Examining Japan's lost decades - 2015 Book | Introduction and chapter 5 'Making sense of the lost decades: workplaces and schools, men and women, young and old, rich and poor' by Andrew Gordon

Yokohama street life: the precarious career of a Japanese day laborer - Tom Gill, 2015 Book | Recommended

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Men of uncertainty: the social organization of day laborers in contemporary Japan - Gill, Tom, 2001 Chapter | Recommended

A companion to the anthropology of Japan - Robertson, Jennifer Ellen, 2005 Chapter | Roberts, G. - Shifting contours of class and status

Japan's underclass: day laborers and the homeless - Hideo Aoki, 2006 Book

Social class in contemporary Japan: structures, sorting and strategies - Hiroshi Ishida, David H. Slater, 2010 [i.e. 2009 Chapter | Brinton, Mary - ‘Social class and economic life chances in post-industrial Japan: the “lost generation”

Social class in contemporary Japan: structure, sorting and strategies - Hiroshi Ishida, David H. Slater, c2010 Chapter | Brinton, Mary - ‘Social class and economic life chances in post-industrial Japan: the “lost generation”

Recreating Japanese men - Sabine Fru ̈ hstu ̈ ck, Anne Walthall, 2011 Chapter | Gill, Tom - ‘Failed Manhood on the Streets of Urban Japan: The meanings of self-reliance for homeless men’

Recreating Japanese men - Sabine Fru ̈ hstu ̈ ck, Anne Walthall, 2011 Chapter | Gill, Tom - ‘Failed Manhood on the Streets of Urban Japan: The meanings of self-reliance for homeless men’

Tom Gill's articles on day labourers and the homeless Webpage

"We are not garbage!": the homeless movement in Tokyo, 1994-2002 - Miki Hasegawa, 2006 Book

Inequality and Precarity in Japan: The Sorry Achievements of Abenomics - Inoue, Shin, 2018 Article

Above the clouds: status culture of the modern Japanese nobility - Lebra, Takie Sugiyama, c1993

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Book

Japanese working class lives: an ethnographic study of factory workers - Roberson, James E., 1998 Book

How ethnic minorities experience social mobility in Japan: an ethnographic study of Peruvian migrants - Takenaka, Ayumi Chapter

Precarious Japan - Anne Allison, 2013 Book

Week 3: Disability on the Margins (13 items)

Key Readings (2 items)

A Disability of the Soul: an Ethnography of Schizophrenia and Mental Illness in Contemporary Japan - Karen Nakamura, 2013 Book | Essential | Read all of CHAPTER 6: Bethel Therapies

Disability in Japan - Carolyn S. Stevens, 2013 Book | Essential | CHAPTER 2 (and Chapter 1 if you have time)

Media (2 items)

The Eugenics Podcast #2: Disability and Japan's Eugenic Protection Law - YouTube Audio-visual document | Recommended | Oxford Brookes Professor, Marius Turda gives an excellent 10min review of the history of the Japanese eugenics movement that ties to notions of disability, race, and nation

Living in Japan with a Physical Disability - YouTube Audio-visual document | Recommended

Further Readings (8 items)

The Coronavirus Crisis: Disability Politics and Activism in Contemporary Japan | The Asia-Pacific Journal: Japan Focus Webpage | Recommended

Living with Disability in Urban Japan - Carolyn S. Stevens, 2007-12 Article | Recommended

Disability/postmodernity: embodying disability theory - Mairian Corker, Tom Shakespeare, 2002 Book | Recommended | Chapter 16 Naming and Narrating Disability in Japan - James Valentine

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The Rebirth of Secrets and the New Care of the Self in Depressed Japan - Junko Kitanaka, 2015-12 Article

Deaf in Japan: signing and the politics of identity - Karen Nakamura, 2006 Book

The Limits of Dwelling and the Unwitnessed Death - Jason Danely, 2019-05-22 Article

Long-Term Care Insurance, marketization and the quality of care: ‘good time living’ in a recently established nursing home in a suburb of Tokyo - Reiko Abe Auestad, 2010-04-20 Article

Between Equality and Difference: The Politics of Disability in Japan - Katharina Heyer, 2000-01 Article

The Disability Rights Movement in Japan: Past, present and future - Reiko Hayashi, Masako Okuhira, 2001-10 Article

Week 4: Freeters, NEETS, and hikikomori: the marginality of youth (24 items)

Key readings (2 items)

Precarious Japan - Anne Allison, 2013 Book | Essential | Chapter 3 'Ordinary refugeeism: poverty, precarity, youth' pp.43-76

Japanese Freelance Workers Struggle during the COVID-19 Pandemic: Social Media, Critique and Political Resistance - Satsuki Uno, Robin O'Day Article | Recommended

Making sense of youth problems - Toivonen, T., Imoto, Y. Chapter | Essential

Further readings (21 items)

New starts at New Start: Recovery and the work of - Ramsey Ismail, 2020-10 Article | Recommended

‘Don't let your child become a NEET!’ The strategic foundations of a Japanese youth scare - Tuukka Toivonen, 2011-09 Article | Recommended

Hikikomori: How private isolation caught the public eye - Sachiko Horiguchi, Yuki Imoto, Tuukka H. I. Toivonen, 2012

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Chapter | Recommended

Home and family in Japan: continuity and transformation - 2011 Book | Recommended | chapter 11 Coping with hikikomori: socially withdrawn youth and the Japanese family

The NEET and Hikikomori spectrum: Assessing the risks and consequences of becoming culturally marginalized - Yukiko Uchida, Vinai Norasakkunkit, 2015-08-18 Article | Recommended

Lost in transition: youth, work, and instability in postindustrial Japan - Mary C. Brinton, 2011 Book | Preface and chapter 1 'The lost generation'

Jobless Youths and the NEET Problem in Japan - Y. GENDA, 2007-03-29 Article

Youth deviance in Japan: class reproduction and non-conformity - Robert Stuart Yoder, 2004 Book

The Japanese Hikikomori Phenomenon: Acute Social Withdrawal among Young People - Andy Furlong, 2008-05 Article

Debating otaku in contemporary Japan: historical perspectives and new horizons - 2016 Book

Fashioning Japanese subcultures - Yuniya Kawamura, 2012 Book

Youth Employment in Japan's Economic Recovery: 'Freeters' and 'NEETs' | The Asia-Pacific Journal: Japan Focus - Kosugi, R., 2006 Article

Problematic transitions from school to employment: freeters and NEETs in Japan and Germany - Matthias Pilz, Kirsten Schmidt-Altmann, Mikiko Eswein, 2015-01-02 Article

Gambling with virtue: Japanese women and the search for self in a changing nation - Nancy Ross Rosenberger, ©2001 Book

The trickier import: should the use of "social exclusion" (shakaiteki haijo) be abandoned in Japan? - Toivonen, T., 2008 Document

Japan's emerging youth policy: getting young adults back to work - Tuukka H. I. Toivonen, 2016 Book

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Transcending labels and panics: the logic of Japanese youth problems. - Toivonen, TuukkaImoto, Yuki, 2013 Article

Nerd nation: Otaku and youth subcultures in contemporary Japan - Tsutsui, William M., 2008 Article

Student Discourse on Tôkôkyohi (School Phobia/Refusal) in Japan: Burnout or Empowerment? - Shoko Yoneyama, 2000 Article

Life course, happiness and well-being in Japan - 2017 Book

For more general discussion on youth and marginality outsie of the Japanese context, see: (1 items)

Youth, the 'underclass' and social exclusion - Robert MacDonald, 1997 Book

Week 5 : Class or caste? The case of the Burakumin (24 items)

Key Reading (1 items)

Working skin: making leather, making a multicultural Japan - Joseph D. Hankins, 2014 Book | Essential | Please read the first two chapters

Further Reading (21 items)

An ecology of sensibility: The politics of scents and stigma in Japan - Joseph Doyle Hankins, 2013-03 Article | Recommended

Yamanote's promise: buraku stigma, Tokyo's trains, and the infrastructure of social belonging - Joseph Hankins, 2018-04-03 Article | Recommended

Japan's minorities: the illusion of homogeneity - Michael Weiner, University of Sheffield, 2009 Chapter | Recommended | Neary, I. - Burakumin in contemporary Japan

Globalization and social change in contemporary Japan - Eades, Jeremy, Gill, Tom, Befu, Harumi, 2000 Chapter | Davis, J.H. Jr. - Blurring the boundaries of the Buraku(min)

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Diversity in Japanese culture and language - Macdonald, Gaynor Marilyn, Maher, John Christopher, 1995 Chapter | Kariya, R. - The confidence to live! Experiencing the Buraku Liberation Movement

Embodying difference: the making of burakumin in modern Japan - Amos, Timothy D., c2011 Book

Understanding buraku inequality: Improvements and challenges - Christopher Bondy, 2010 Article

Voice, silence, and self: negotiations of Buraku identity in contemporary Japan - Christopher Bondy, Harvard University. Asia Center, 2015 Book

The schooling of buraku children: overcoming the legacy of stereotyping and discrimination - Boocock, Sarane Spence Chapter

Racialization in a ‘homogenous’ society? The case of Buraku people in Japan. - Brown, Eric S., 2013 Article

Performing the buraku: narratives on cultures and everyday life in contemporary Japan - Flavia Cangia ̀ , 2013 Book

Images of Edo: reinterpreting “Japanese history” and the “buraku” through community-based narratives - Flavia Cangià, 2013-03 Article

Japan's invisible race: caste in culture and personality - De Vos, George A., Wagatsuma, Hiroshi, 1972 Chapter | Chapter 1

Pariah persistence in changing Japan: a case study - Donoghue, John D., Acitelli-Donoghue, Anna, c1977 Book

Discriminatory language in Japan : Burakumin, the disabled, and women. - Gottlieb, N. Article

An introduction to the Buraku issue: questions and answers - Kitaguchi, Suehiro, McLauchlan, Alastair, 1999 Book

Political protest and social control in pre-war Japan: the origins of Buraku liberation -

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Neary, Ian, c1989 Book

Postwar Japan as history - Gordon, Andrew, c1993 Chapter | Upham, F. - Unplaced persons and movements for place

The invisible visible minority: Japan's Burakumin - I. Roger Yoshino, Sueo Murakoshi, 1977 Book

A number of novels and stories have been written about the Burakumin. Here are some suggestions: (2 items)

The broken commandment - Shimazaki, To ̄ son, 1974 Book | You might find this novel written on the topic interesting

The cape: and other stories from the Japanese Ghetto - Kenji Nakagami, Eve Zimmerman, 2008, ©1999 Book

New law or old issues: stakeholder expectations on the bill for the promotion of the elimination of Buraku discrimination - Christopher Bondy Article

From the (end of) Dōwa policies to (the start of) an anti-discrimination policy? - Ian Neary Article

Week 7: Colonialism and post-colonialism: National identity and Marginalisation (12 items)

Key Readings (2 items)

A Descent into the Past: The Frontier in the construction of Japanese Identity - Tessa Morris-Suzuki Chapter | Essential

"'Self' and 'other' in imperial Japan" - Michael Weiner Chapter | Essential

Further Readings (10 items)

On the margins of empire: Buraku and Korean identity in prewar and wartime Japan - Jeffrey Paul Bayliss, 2013 Book | Recommended

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The construction of racial identities in China and Japan: historical and contemporary perspectives - Frank Diko ̈ tter, ©1997 Book | Recommended

Ainu Ethnicity and the Boundaries of the Early Modern Japanese State - David L. Howell, 19940201 Article | Recommended

Social identities of minority others in Japan: listening to the narratives of Ainu, Buraku and Zainichi Koreans - Tin Tin Htun, March 2012 Article | Recommended

Deracialised Race, Obscured Racism: Japaneseness, Western and Japanese Concepts of Race, and Modalities of Racism - Yuko Kawai, 20150102 Article | Recommended

Nationalisms of Japan: managing and mystifying identity - Brian J. McVeigh, ©2004 Book | Recommended

Multiethnic Japan and the Monoethnic Myth - Stephen Murphy-Shigematsu, 19931201 Article | Recommended

Biopower: Blood, Kinship, and Eugenic Marriage - Jennifer Robertson Chapter | Recommended

Debating the "Japanese" Race in Meiji Japan: Towards a History of Early Japanese Anthropology - David Askew Chapter | Optional

Colonial discourse and post-colonial theory: a reader - 2013 Book | Optional

Week 8 : The Ainu (22 items)

Key Reading (4 items)

Japan's minorities: the illusion of homogeneity - Weiner, Michael, University of Sheffield, 2009 Chapter | Essential | Siddle, R. - Ainu : Japan's indigenous people

''An epoch-making event? The 1997 Ainu cultural protection act and its impact''. - Siddle, R. Article | Recommended

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Media (2 items)

Ainu dance and song (in Japanese) YouTube Audio-visual document | Optional

Animated Ainu song (Japanese subtitles)- YouTube Audio-visual document | Optional

Further Reading (18 items)

May the Saru river flow: the Nibutani Dam and the resurging tide of the Ainu identity movement - Creighton, Millie Chapter | Recommended

Ainu: spirit of a Northern people - Fitzhugh, William W., Dubreuil, Chisato O., Arctic Studies Center, c1999 Book | Recommended | This is a huge book! The following (generally short) chapters are particularly useful: 26, 27, 29, 31, 32, 33, 35, 40, 41, 42, 47

Reclaiming culture: indigenous people and self-representation - Hendry, Joy, 2005 Chapter | Recommended | Prologue and epilogue.

Ethnic tourism in Hokkaido and the shaping of Ainu identity - Hiwasaki, L. Article | Recommended

Harukor: an Ainu woman's tale - Honda, Katsuichi, c2000 Book | Recommended

Making "Useful Citizens" of Ainu Subjects in Early Twentieth-Century Japan - David L. Howell, 2004 Article | Recommended

Beyond Ainu studies: changing academic and public perspectives - Mark Hudson, ann-elise lewallen, Mark K. Watson, 2014 Book | Recommended | Articles according to interest

The Fabric of Indigeneity: Ainu Identity, Gender, and Settler Colonialism in Japan - ann-elise Lewallen, 2016 Book | Recommended

Our land was a forest: an Ainu memoir - Kayano, Shigeru, c1994 Book | Recommended

Dominant narratives of colonial Hokkaido and imperial Japan: envisioning the periphery and the modern nation-state - Michele Mason, 2012 Book | Recommended | Especially introduction

Japan's post-war Ainu policy. Why the Japanese Government has not recognised Ainu indigenous rights? - Hiroshi Maruyama, 2013-4

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Article | Recommended | Available as a scan on Moodle

Indigenous efflorescence: beyond revitalisation in Sapmi and Ainu Mosir - 2018 Book | Recommended

Race, resistance and the Ainu of Japan - Siddle, Richard M., 1996 Book | Recommended

The return of the Ainu: cultural mobilization and the practice of ethnicity in Japan - Katarina V. Sjo ̈ berg, c1993 Book | Recommended

Indigenous peoples of Asia - R. H. Barnes, Andrew Gray, Benedict Kingsbury, Association for Asian Studies, c1995 Chapter | Recommended | Sjoberg, Katarina - “Practicing Ethnicity in a Hierarchical Culture: The Ainu Case”.

Transcultural Japan: at the borderlands of race, gender, and identity - David Blake Willis, Stephen Murphy-Shigematsu, 2008 Chapter | Recommended | Sjoberg, Katarina - “Positioning oneself in the Japanese nation state: the Hokkaido Ainu case”

Japan's Ainu minority in Tokyo: diasporic indigeneity and urban politics - Mark K. Watson, 2014 Book | Recommended

The world view of the Ainu: nature and cosmos, reading from language - Takako Yamada, 2001 Book | Recommended

Week 9 : Okinawans/Ryukyuans (26 items)

Key Reading (2 items)

Japan's minorities: the illusion of homogeneity - Weiner, Michael, University of Sheffield, 1997 Chapter | Essential | Tairi, K. - Troubled national identity : the Ryukyuans/Okinawans

(First edition only)

Japan's minorities: the illusion of homogeneity - Weiner, Michael, University of Sheffield, 2009

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Chapter | Essential | Allen, M. - Okinawa, ambivalence, identity, and Japan

(Second edition only)

Media (2 items)

The Boom - Shima Uta - YouTube Audio-visual document | Optional

ティンクティンク ♪谷茶前節 - YouTube Audio-visual document | Optional

Further Reading (22 items)

Identity and resistance in Okinawa - Allen, Matthew, c2002 Book | Recommended

Islands of discontent: Okinawan responses to Japanese and American power - Hein, Laura E., Selden, Mark, 2003 Chapter | Recommended | Angst, L. - The sacrifice of a schoolgirl : the 1995 rape case, discourses of power, and women's lives in Okinawa

The sacrifice of a schoolgirl : the 1995 rape case, discourses of power, and women's lives in Okinawa - Angst, L. Article | Recommended

From the national gaze to multiple gazes : representations of Okinawa in recent Japanese cinema - Gerow, A. Chapter | Recommended | Gerow, A. - From the national gaze to multiple gazes : representations of Okinawa in recent Japanese cinema

Islands of discontent: Okinawan responses to Japanese and American power - Hein, Laura E., Selden, Mark, 2003 Chapter | Recommended | Roberson, J. - Uchinaa pop ; place and identity in contemporary Okinawan popular music

Japan and Okinawa: structure and subjectivity - Hook, Glenn D., Siddle, Richard, 2003 Book | Recommended

Okinawa and the U.S. military: identity making in the age of globalization - Masamichi S. Inoue, c2007 Book | Recommended

Okinawa: Cold War island - Johnson, Chalmers A., Japan Policy Research Institute, c1999 Book | Recommended

Okinawa: the history of an island people - Kerr, George H., 2000 Book | Optional

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Women of Okinawa: nine voices from a garrison island - Keyso, Ruth Ann, 2000 Book | Optional

Japanese cinema and otherness: nationalism, multiculturalism and the problem of Japaneseness - Mika Ko, 2010 Chapter | Recommended | Part 2: Okinawa

Okinawan religion: belief, ritual and social structure - Lebra, William P., 1966 Chapter | Recommended | Especially chapter 4 : Religious organization and specialists

Southern exposure: modern Japanese literature from Okinawa - Molasky, Michael S., Rabson, Steve, 2000 Book | Optional

The American occupation of Japan and Okinawa: literature and memory - Molasky, Michael S., 1999 Book | Optional

Okinawan diaspora - Ronald Y. Nakasone, 2002 Book | Optional

Schooling and identity in Okinawa: Okinawans and Amerasians in Okinawa - Noiri, Naomi Chapter | Recommended

Between resistance and revolution: cultural politics and social protest - Fox, Richard G., Starn, Orin, c1997 Chapter | Recommended | Ota, Y. - Appropriating media, resisting power : representations of hybrid identities in Okinawan popular culture

The Okinawan diaspora in Japan: crossing the borders within - Steve Rabson, c2012 Book | Recommended

Uchinaa pop : place and identity in contemporary Okinawan popular music - Roberson, J. Article | Recommended

Nature, ritual, and society in Japan's Ryukyu Islands - Arne Røkkum, 2006 Book | Recommended

Embodying belonging: racializing Okinawan diaspora in Bolivia and Japan - Taku Suzuki, c2010 Book | Optional

Fault lines of occupation, limits of hybridity: race, class and transnationalism in Okinawa and Japan - Takamori, Ayako Chapter | Recommended | Scan available on Moodle

Week 10 : Zainichi Koreans (21 items)

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Key Reading (3 items)

Japan's minorities: the illusion of homogeneity - Weiner, Michael, University of Sheffield, 2009 Chapter | Essential | Weiner, M. and Chapman, D. - Zainichi Koreans in history and memory

The third way and beyond : Zainichi Korean identity and the politics of belonging - Chapman, David Article | Essential

Multiculturalism in the new Japan: crossing the boundaries within - Graburn, Nelson H. H., Ertl, John, Tierney, R. Kenji, 2008 Chapter | Essential | Hester, J. - Datsu Zainichi-Ron : an emerging discourse on belonging among ethnic Koreans in Japan

Further Reading (18 items)

Diaspora without homeland: being Korean in Japan - Ryang, Sonia, Lie, John, c2009 Book | Recommended

Lives of young Koreans in Japan - Fukuoka, Yasunori, 2000 Chapter | Recommended | Chapter 2 : Japan's Korean minority today

Two Faces of the Hate Korean Campaign in Japan - Gaku, Ishibashi, Muneo, Narusawa, 2017 Article | Recommended

Zainichi Korean identity and ethnicity - Chapman, David, c2008 Book | Recommended

Urban ethnic encounters: the spatial consequences - Erdentug ̆ , Aygen, Colombijn, Freek, 2002 Chapter | Recommended | Hester, J. - Repackaging difference : the Korean 'theming' of a shopping street in Osaka, Japan

Japan's hidden apartheid: the Korean minority and the Japanese - Hicks, George, 1997 Book | Recommended

Japanese cinema and otherness: nationalism, multiculturalism and the problem of Japaneseness - Mika Ko, 2010 Chapter | Recommended | Part 3: Zainichi

Koreans in Japan: ethnic conflict and accommodation - Lee, Changsoo, De Vos, George A., Chung, Dae-Gyun, c1981

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Book | Recommended

Ethnic Koreans in Japanese schools: shifting boundaries and collaboration with other groups - Okana, Kaori Chapter | Recommended

Indoctrination or rationalization? The anthropology of 'North Koreans' in Japan - Ryang, S. Article | Recommended

North Koreans in Japan: language, ideology, and identity - Ryang, Sonia, 1997 Book | Recommended

Koreans in Japan: critical voices from the margin - Ryang, Sonia, 2000 Book | Recommended

Korean Japanese : a new identity option for resident Koreans in Japan - Tai, E. Article | Recommended

Between assimilation and transnationalism: the debate on nationality acquisition among Koreans in Japan - Eika Tai, 2009 Article | Recommended

Diversity in Japanese culture and language - Macdonald, Gaynor Marilyn, Maher, John Christopher, 1995 Chapter | Recommended | Yi, Y. - Ikuno-ku Osaka : centre of hope and struggle

Diaspora without Homeland: Being Korean in Japan - Ryang, Sonia Book | Recommended

Hiroshima traces: time, space, and the dialectics of memory - Yoneyama, Lisa, c1999 Book | Optional | Yoneyama, L. - Ethnic and colonial memories : the Korean atom bomb memorial

Zainichi Korean Identity and Performing North Korean Music in Japan - Sunhee Koo, 2019 Article | Recommended

Week 11 : Migration, reverse migration and shifting identities (28 items)

Key Reading (2 items)

Global Japan: the experience of Japan's new immigrant and overseas communities - Roger Goodman, 2003 Book | Recommended | Introduction

Japanese-Brazilian ethnic return migration and the making of Japan's newest immigrant

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minority - Tsuda, Takeyuki Chapter | Recommended

Further Reading (26 items)

Immigrant Japan: mobility and belonging in an ethno-nationalist society - Gracia Liu-Farrer, 2020 Book | Recommended | Introduction 1-22 gives an easy to read introduction to Japan's immigration history in comparisons to other places

Paradoxes of ethnicity-based immigration : Peruvian and Japanese-Peruvian migrants in Japan - Takenaka, A. Chapter | Recommended

General (19 items)

Japanese and Nikkei at home and abroad: negotiating identities in a global world - Nobuko Adachi, 2010 Book | Recommended

Globalizing Japan: ethnography of the Japanese presence in Asia, Europe, and America - Befu, Harumi, Guichard-Anguis, Sylvie, 2001 Book | Recommended | Especially the introduction

Opening the door: immigration, ethnicity, and globalization in Japan - Brody, Betsy, 2002 Book | Recommended

A sociology of Japanese youth: from returnees to NEETs - Roger Goodman, Yuki Imoto, Tuukka H. I. Toivonen, 2012 Book | Recommended | Goodman, R. - ‘From Pitiful to Privileged? The Fifty year story of the Changing Perception and Status of Japan’s returned children (kikoushijo).

Global Japan: the experience of Japan's new immigrant and overseas communities - Goodman, Roger, 2003 Book | Recommended

Global Japan: the experience of Japan's new immigrant and overseas communities - Roger Goodman, 2003 Book | Recommended

New worlds, new lives: globalization and people of Japanese descent in the Americas and from Latin America in Japan - Hirabayashi, Lane Ryo, Kikumura-Yano, Akemi, Hirabayashi, James A., 2002 Book | Recommended

Searching for home abroad: Japanese Brazilians and transnationalism - Lesser, Jeff, 2003 Book | Recommended

Migrant workers in Japan - Komai, Hiroshi, 1995 Book | Recommended

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Japanese-Brazilians and the Future of Brazilian Migration to Japan. - McKenzie, David, Salcedo, Alejandrina, 2014 Article | Recommended

The kikokushijo: negotiating boundaries within and without - Nakaga, Misako Tsuneyoshi, Ryoko Chapter | Recommended

Japan's minorities: the illusion of homogeneity - Weiner, Michael, University of Sheffield, 1997 Chapter | Recommended | Sellek, Y. - Nikkeijin : the phenomenon of return migration (First edition only)

Between two shores - Nobue Suzuki, 2000-7 Article | Recommended

Diasporic homecomings: ethnic return migration in comparative perspective - Tsuda, Takeyuki, 2009 Chapter | Recommended | Takenaka, A. - Ethnic hierarchy and its impact on ethnic identities : a comparative analysis of Peruvian and Brazilian return-migrants in Japan (pp. 260-280)

The Permanence of "Temporary" Migration: The "Structural Embeddedness" of Japanese-Brazilian Immigrant Workers in Japan - Takeyuki Tsuda, 1999 Article | Recommended

The Stigma of Ethnic Difference: The Structure of Prejudice and "Discrimination" toward Japan's New Immigrant Minority - Takeyuki Tsuda, 1998 Article | Recommended

Acting Brazilian in Japan : ethnic resistance among return migrants - Tsuda, T. Article | Recommended

Domesticating the Immigrant Other: Japanese Media Images of Nikkeijin Return Migrants - T. Tsuda, 2003 Article | Recommended

Diasporic homecomings: ethnic return migration in comparative perspective - Tsuda, Takeyuki, 2009 Book | Recommended | Tsuda, T. - Global inequities and diasporic return : Japanese American and Brazilian encounters with the ethnic homeland

Book length ethnographies on Brazilians in Japan (5 items)

Migrants and identity in Japan and Brazil: the Nikkeijin - Carvalho, Daniela de, 2003 Book | Recommended

No one home: Brazilian selves remade in Japan - Linger, Daniel Touro, 2001 Book | Recommended

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Brokered homeland: Japanese Brazilian migrants in Japan - Roth, Joshua Hotaka, 2002 Book | Recommended

Strangers in the ethnic homeland: Japanese Brazilian return migration in transnational perspective - Tsuda, Takeyuki, 2003 Book | Recommended

Book review - comparison of the books of Roth and Tsuda - Goodman, R. Article | Recommended | For an interesting comparison of the books of Roth and Tsuda

ネーネーズ『Live in TOKYO～月に歌う』ライブDigest - YouTube Audio-visual document | Optional

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