Transcultural Japan
Subtitle: at the borderlands of race, gender and identity
By: David Blake Willis and Stephen Murphy-Shigematsu.
Contributors: Willis, David Blake.; Murphy-Shigematsu, Stephen.
Series: Routledge studies in Asia's transformations
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2007
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780415368902
Subjects: Multiculturalism -- Japan; Identity (Psychology) -- Japan; Japanese -- Ethnic identity
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Japan metamorphosis : transformation in the cultural borderlands of Japan  / David Blake Willis and Stephen Murphy-Shigematsu; title: A perfectly ordinary ethnic Korean in Japan : reprise / Kyo Nobuko ; with Akemi Wegmuller; title: Transgressing women : reading narratives of "Filipina brides" in Japan since the 1980s / Nobue Suzuki; title: Self as other : internationalism as resistance among Japanese women / Karen Kelsky; title: Japanese-Brazilian migrants in "the land of yen and the ancestors" between privilege and prejudice / Angelo Akimitsu Ishi; title: From ethnic ghetto to "gourmet republic" : the changing image of Kobe's Chinatown and the ambiguity of being Chinese in modern Japan / Tsu Yun Hui; title: Okinawan diasporic identities : between being a buffer and a bridge / Wesley Ueunten; title: The marvelous in the real : images of Burakumin in modern Japanese fiction (a focus on Nakagami Kenji's Kumano saga) / Yoshiko Yokochi Samuel; title: Positioning oneself in the Japanese nation state : the Hokkaido Ainu case / Katarina Sjberg; title: "Becoming a better muslim" : identity narratives of Muslim foreign workers in Japan / Onishi Akiko; title: Dejima : creolization and enclaves of difference in transnational Japan / David Blake Willis; title: The racialization of Japan / William Wetherall