Multiethnic Japan.
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Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- A Note on Terminology -- Introduction -- 1. The Second Opening of Japan -- 2. The Contemporary Discourse of Japaneseness -- 3. Pop Multiethnicity -- 4. Modern Japan, Multiethnic Japan -- 5. Genealogies of Japanese Identity and Monoethnic Ideology -- 6. Classify and Signify -- Conclusion -- Appendix: Multilingual Japan -- References -- Index.
Multiethnic Japan challenges the received view of Japanese society as ethnically homogeneous. Employing a wide array of arguments and evidence--historical and comparative, interviews and observations, high literature and popular culture--John Lie recasts modern Japan as a thoroughly multiethnic society.
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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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