| Race and Migration in Imperial Japan Contributor(s): Weiner, Michael (Author) |
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ISBN: 0415062284 ISBN-13: 9780415062282 Publisher: Routledge OUR PRICE: $218.50 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: March 1994 Annotation: "Race and Migration in Imperial Japan" examines the relevance of racial discourse in the foundation of the Japanese identity over the course of the last century. The treatment of Japan's minority populations--of which Koreans are the largest group--remains circumscribed by racial assumptions first formulated during the Tokugawa period and reinforced by the later construction of a Japanese national identity. Michael Weiner examines the complex interplay of ideologies concerning race, empire and nation which determined the nature of colonial rule in Korea and the treatment of labor drawn from the colonial periphery. The book deconstructs the myth of Japanese cultural and racial homogeneity and the idea of a "Japanese race." Weiner also examines the causes and consequences of colonial migration. Rather than identifying the "push factors" which caused immigrants to move, he focuses on the more dynamic "pull factors" which determined immigrant destinations. He also analyzes the structural need for low cost temporary labor which Korean immigrants filled. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | Asia - Japan - Social Science | Ethnic Studies - General - Social Science | Regional Studies |
| Dewey: 952.004 |
| LCCN: 93024007 |
| Series: Wellcome Institute Series in the History of Medicine |
| Physical Information: 1" H x 5.54" W x 9.42" (1.11 lbs) 290 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Japanese |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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 periphery. He deconstructs the myth of a Japanese race'. |