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Autor:
Nishiyama, Hidefumi
This thesis is an historical study of biopolitical relations between racism and biometric identification in Japan since the late nineteenth century to the present day. Adopting Foucault’s historical method, it challenges progressive accounts of the
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Autor:
Higa, H. K.
In 1900, a group of Okinawans sailed to Honolulu aboard the SS China in order to escape the hardships of Japanese colonization in Okinawa. Over a century later, their descendants represent the largest Okinawan diaspora in the world today. This study
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http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.629272
Autor:
Rotem Kowner
When Europeans first landed in Japan they encountered people they perceived as white-skinned and highly civilized, but these impressions did not endure. Gradually the Europeans'positive impressions faded away and Japanese were seen as yellow-skinned
Autor:
Yohtaro Takano
Although it is widely believed that Japanese people are typical collectivists compared to individualistic Westerners, this view is not supported by empirical research. Employing'Japanese collectivism'as a case example, this book explores how the dich
Autor:
Keizo Nagatani, David W. Edgington
This book first published in 1998 containes the work of Six members of the Centre for Japanese Research (CJR), an area unit of the Institute for Asian Research at the University of British Columbia. They were motivated by the fact that after over a c
Autor:
Hiroko Matsuda
Okinawa, one of the smallest prefectures of Japan, has drawn much international attention because of the long-standing presence of US bases and the people's resistance against them. In recent years, alternative discourses on Okinawa have emerged due
Autor:
Nobuko Adachi
This is a book about the power ethnic capital and how it drives both the economics of, and the quest for identity in, a Japanese Brazilian commune. Adachi tells readers what this small diaspora community can teach us about how life “in the trenches
Autor:
Steve Rabson
The experiences of Okinawans in mainland Japan, like those of migrant minorities elsewhere, derive from a legacy of colonialism, war, and alien rule. Okinawans have long coped with a society in which differences are often considered “strange” or
Autor:
Adachi, Nobuko
This book is an interdisciplinary collection of essays on the society and cultures of twenty-first century Japanese transnationals: first-generation migrants (Issei), and their descendants who were born and grew up outside Japan (Nikkei); and Japanes
Autor:
Eiji Oguma
This book presents a counter-argument to the Japanese belief that they are a homogeneous nation since the Meiji period. Eiji Oguma demonstrates that the myth of ethnic homogeneity was not established during the Meiji period, nor during the Pacific Wa