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.