DAVID BLAKE WILLIS is Professor of Anthropology and Education at Soai University, Osaka, where he has been since 1986. He was a Senior Associate Professor at the University of Oxford 2006-2007.
STEPHEN MURPHY-SHIGEMATSU, Professor at the University of Tokyo 1994-2006, received a doctorate from Harvard, was a Visiting Scholar at Stanford, and is Professor at Fielding University.
Transcultural Japan provides a critical examination of being Other in Japan. Portraying the multiple intersections of race, ethnicity, class, and gender, the book suggests ways in which the transcultural borderlands of Japan reflect globalization in this island nation. The authors show the diversity of Japan from the inside, revealing an extraordinarily complex new society in sharp contrast to the persistent stereotypical images held of a regimented, homogeneous Japan. Unsettling as it may be, there are powerful arguments here for looking at the meanings of globalization in Japan through these diverse communities and individuals. These are not harmonious, utopian communities by any means, as they are formed in contexts, both global and local, of unequal power relations.
Yet it is also clear that the multiple processes associated with globalization lead to larger hybridizations, a global mélange of socio-cultural, political, and economic forces and the emergence of what could be called trans-local Creolized cultures. Transcultural Japan reports regional, national, and cosmopolitan movements. Characterized by global flows, hybridity, and networks, this book documents Japan´s new lived experiences and rapid metamorphosis.
Accessible and engaging, this broad-based volume is an attractive and useful resource for students of Japanese culture and society, as well as being a timely and revealing contribution to research scholars and for those interested in race, ethnicity, cultural identities and transformations.
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This book looks at racial and cultural minority groups in Japanese society today
Brings together an international group of contributors from the US, Japan and Europe
Will appeal to anyone studying Japanese studies, society, and history, as well as race and ethnic studies
Foreword and Afterword by prominent Japanese and UK scholars
Part 1: Introduction 1. Transcultural Japan: Metamorphosis in the Cultural Borderlands and Beyond Part 2: Gender and Identity 2. A Perfectly Ordinary Ethnic Korean in Japan: Reprise 3. Between Two Shores: Transnational Projects and Filipina Wives in/from Japan 4. Gender, Modernity, and Eroticized Internationalism in Japan Part 3: Diaspora and Mobility 5. Between Privilege and Prejudice: Japanese-Brazilian Migrants in "The Land of Yen and the Ancestors" 6. From Ethnic Ghetto to "Gourmet Republic": The Changing Image of Kobe's Chinatown and the Ambiguity of Being Chinese in Modern Japan 7. Okinawan Diasporic Identities: Between Being a Buffer and a Bridge Part 4: Imagining Oneself: Visibility and Invisibility 8. The Marvelous in the Real: Images of Burakumin in Nakagami Kenji's Kumano Saga 9. Positioning Oneself in the Japanese Nation State: The Hokkaido Ainu Case 10. "Becoming a Better Muslim": Identity Narratives of Muslim Foreign Workers in Japan Part 5: Transnational, Transcultural Flows 11. Dejima: Creolization and Enclaves of Difference in Transnational Japan 12. The Racialization of Japan 13. "The Invisible Man" and other Narratives of Living in the Borderlands of Race and Nation 14. Ethnoscapes and The Other in 21st Century Japan. Afterword: Marginals, Minorities, Majorities and Migrants: Studying the Japanese Borderlands in Contemporary Japan
Transcultural Japan provides a critical examination of mixed and pure, of becoming and being Other in Japan, of the multiple intersections of identities (cultural, class, gender, race, ethnicity, etc.) and the narratives and conversations about these identities.
'Transcultural Japan provides insightful analyses of race, gender and identity in contemporary Japan that can be utilized by both seasoned academics and newcomers to Japanese studies.' - Stephen Robert Nagy, Waseda University,Social Science Japan Journal, vol 12, no 2, Winter 2009
'Transcultural Japan provides a new exploration of diversity in Japan by variously situated authors, themselves representing diverse perspectives on Japanese society. Perhaps its largest contribution is in presentations of individuals and groups with multiple identity positions, reflecting the interpenetrations of transnationalism or transculturalism as currently manifest in Japanese society and experience' - Millie Creighton, University of British Columbia
"Transcultural Japan: At the Borderlands of Race, Gender, and Identity is a thoughtprovoking and engaging examination of Others in contemporary Japan. The breadth and depth of this edited volume is the result of the collaborative efforts of fifteen authors from diverse areas of expertise, yet it remains throughout a unified and accessible text. Transcultural Japan is essential reading for anyone interested in not just what is happening in Japan today, but perhaps more importantly, where Japan is heading tomorrow." - Lacklan Jackson, Asian Studies Reviews, December 2010
Provides a critical examination of being Other in Japan. Portraying the multiple intersections of race, ethnicity, class, and gender, this book suggests ways in which the transcultural borderlands of Japan reflect globalization in this island nation. It reports regional, national, and cosmopolitan movements.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Part 1: Introduction 1. Transcultural Japan: Metamorphosis in the Cultural Borderlands and Beyond Part 2: Gender and Identity 2. A Perfectly Ordinary Ethnic Korean in Japan: Reprise 3. Between Two Shores: Transnational Projects and Filipina Wives in/from Japan 4. Gender, Modernity, and Eroticized Internationalism in Japan Part 3: Diaspora and Mobility 5. Between Privilege and Prejudice: Japanese-Brazilian Migrants in "The Land of Yen and the Ancestors" 6. From Ethnic Ghetto to "Gourmet Republic": The Changing Image of Kobe's Chinatown and the Ambiguity of Being Chinese in Modern Japan 7. Okinawan Diasporic Identities: Between Being a Buffer and a Bridge Part 4: Imagining Oneself: Visibility and Invisibility 8. The Marvelous in the Real: Images of Burakumin in Nakagami Kenji's Kumano Saga 9. Positioning Oneself in the Japanese Nation State: The Hokkaido Ainu Case 10. "Becoming a Better Muslim": Identity Narratives of Muslim Foreign Workers in Japan Part 5: Transnational, Transcultural Flows 11. Dejima: Creolization and Enclaves of Difference in Transnational Japan 12. The Racialization of Japan 13. "The Invisible Man" and other Narratives of Living in the Borderlands of Race and Nation 14. Ethnoscapes and The Other in 21st Century Japan. Afterword: Marginals, Minorities, Majorities and Migrants: Studying the Japanese Borderlands in Contemporary Japan
