Race and migration in Imperial Japan
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Race and migration in Imperial Japan
（The Sheffield Centre for Japanese Studies/Routledge series）
Routledge, 1994
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Bibliography: p. [243]-270
Includes index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
A high degree of cultural and racial homogeneity has long been associated with Japan, with its political discourse and with the lexicon of post-war Japanese scholarship. This book examines underlying assumptions. The author provides an analysis of racial discourse in Japan, its articulation and re-articulation over the past century, against the background of labour migration from the colonial periphery. He deconstructs the myth of a `Japanese race'.
Michael Weiner pursues a second major theme of colonial migration; its causes and consequences. Rather than merely identifying the `push factors', the analysis focuses on the more dynamic `pull factors' that determined immigrant destinations. Similarly, rather than focusing upon the immigrant, the author examines the structural need for low-cost temporary labour that was filled by Korean immigrants.
Table of Contents
- Introduction
- Chapter 1 Race, nation and empire
- Chapter 2 Migration: first phase
- Chapter 3 Some consequences of Cultural Rule
- Chapter 4 Migration, 1925-1938
- Chapter 5 Assimilation and opposition
- Chapter 6 The mobilisation of Koreans during the Second World War
- Chapter 7 The limits of assimilation
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