1st Edition

Race and Migration in Imperial Japan

By Michael Weiner Copyright 1994
292 Pages
by Routledge

290 Pages
by Routledge

292 Pages
by Routledge

A high degree of cultural and racial homogeneity has long been associated with Japan, with its political discourse and with the lexicon of post-war Japanese scholarship. This book examines underlying assumptions. The author provides an analysis of racial discourse in Japan, its articulation and re-articulation over the past century, against the background of labour migration from the colonial... Read more
Introduction; Chapter 1 Race, nation and empire; Chapter 2 Migration: first phase; Chapter 3 Some consequences of Cultural Rule; Chapter 4 Migration, 1925–1938; Chapter 5 Assimilation and opposition; Chapter 6 The mobilisation of Koreans during the Second World War; Chapter 7 The limits of assimilation;

Biography

Micheal Weiner- Director of the Centre for Japanese Studies at the University of Sheffield.