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Cultural and Social Division in Contemporary Japan: Rethinking Discourses of Inclusion and Exclusion book cover

1st Edition

Cultural and Social Division in Contemporary Japan Rethinking Discourses of Inclusion and Exclusion

Edited By Yoshikazu Shiobara, Kohei Kawabata, Joel Matthews Copyright 2020
286 Pages
by Routledge

286 Pages
by Routledge

286 Pages
by Routledge
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The recent manifestation of exclusionism in Japan has emerged at a time of intensified neoliberal economic policies, increased cross-border migration brought on by globalization, the elevated threat of global terrorism, heightened tensions between East Asian states over historical and territorial conflicts, and a backlash by Japanese conservatives over perceived historical apologism. The social... Read more

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

Biography

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.

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