Cultural and Social Division in Contemporary Japan (eBook, PDF)

Rethinking Discourses of Inclusion and Exclusion
Redaktion: Shiobara, Yoshikazu; Matthews, Joel; Kawabata, Kohei

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Produktbeschreibung

This book explores not only how Japanese society is diversified and unequal, but also how diversity and inequality have caused people to divide into separate realities from which conflict and violence have emerged.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 286
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Juli 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781351387880
• Artikelnr.: 57252378

Autorenporträt

Yoshikazu Shiobara is a Professor in the Faculty of Law at Keio University, Japan. Kohei Kawabata is an Associate Professor in the Department of International Cooperation and Multicultural Studies at Tsuda University, Japan. Joel Matthews is a Lecturer in the Faculty of Contemporary Culture at Surugadai University, Japan.

Inhaltsangabe

PART 1
Context and background
Introduction: social division and exclusionism in contemporary Japan
YOSHIKAZU SHIOBARA
1 Inclusion and exclusion in neoliberalizing Japan
NOAH McCORMACK AND KOHEI KAWABATA
PART 2
Exclusionism and ethnic minorities
2 Historical structures of exclusion and the colonial Korean (Zainichi)
diaspora in modern Japan
JOEL MATTHEWS
3 Ethnic "Korean schools" confront discrimination, hate speech and hate
crime: exclusionism from "above and below" in contemporary Japan
WOOKI PARK-KIM (TRANSLATION: JOEL MATTHEWS)
4 Backlash: hate speech, Ainu indigenous denial and historical revisionism
in post-DRIPs Japan
MARK WINCHESTER
5 Mobilizing places: beyond the politics of essentialism in the Okinawa
anti-base struggle
SHINNOSUKE TAKAHASHI
6 Exclusionism targeting international marriage couples and their children
LAWRENCE YOSHITAKA SHIMOJI AND CHIHO OGAYA
7 Expanding exclusion: from undocumented residents into "imposter"
residents
ERIKO SUZUKI
8 On the refugee and asylum seeker situation in Japan from the standpoint
of social exclusion
ERI ISHIKAWA (TRANSLATION: ARIEL ACOSTA)
PART 3
Exclusionism and social minorities
9 Exclusionism and the Burakumin: literacy movement, legislative
countermeasures and the Sayama Incident
MACHIKO ISHIKAWA
10 Heterosexual marriage and childbirth as a "natural course of life":
parenthood as experienced by the generation before the "LGBT boom"
MICHIKO SAMBE (TRANSLATION: MINATA HARA)
11 The social activism of disabled people in postwar Japan: eugenics,
exclusion and discrimination
KOHEI INOSE
12 Discrimination of evacuees in the wake of the Fukushima nuclear disaster
SHUN HARADA
13 A coalition of radicals and Housing First practices in homeless
movements?
TERUHIRO YAMAKITA
PART 4
Theoretical alternatives for overcoming exclusionism
14 Rethinking the principles of "kyo¯sei" in Japan: intersections between
oldcomers and newcomers
KOHEI KAWABATA AND NAOKO YAMAMOTO
15 A theoretical perspective for overcoming exclusionism
YOSHIKAZU SHIOBARA AND MIKAKO SUZUKI
About the Contributors
Index