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Cultural and Social Division in Contemporary Japan

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Cultural and Social Division in Contemporary Japan

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Rethinking Discourses of Inclusion and Exclusion

Cultural and Social Division in Contemporary Japan

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Cultural and Social Division in Contemporary Japan book

Rethinking Discourses of Inclusion and Exclusion
Edited ByYoshikazu Shiobara, Kohei Kawabata, Joel Matthews
Edition 1st Edition
First Published 2019
eBook Published 16 August 2019
Pub. Location London
Imprint Routledge
DOI https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315143705
Pages 286
eBook ISBN 9781315143705
Subjects Area Studies, Politics & International Relations, Social Sciences
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Shiobara, Y., Kawabata, K., & Matthews, J. (Eds.). (2019). Cultural and Social Division in Contemporary Japan: Rethinking Discourses of Inclusion and Exclusion (1st ed.). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315143705

ABSTRACT

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 and political environment for minorities in Japan has shifted drastically since the 1990s, yet many studies of Japan still tend to view Japan through the dominant discourses of “ethnic homogeneity (tanitsu minzoku shakai)” and “middle-class society (so¯churyu¯-shakai)” which positions the exclusion of minorities as an exceptional phenomenon. While exclusionism has been recognized as a serious threat to minority groups, it has not often been considered a representative issue for the whole of Japanese society. This tendency will persist until the discourses of tanitsu minzoku shakai and so¯churyu¯-shakai are systematically debunked and Japan is widely recognized as both multiethnic and socio-economically stratified.

Today, as with most advanced capitalist countries, serious social divides occasioned by the impacts of globalization and neoliberalism have destabilized Japanese society. 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. It empirically examines the current situation while considering the historical development of exclusionism from the interdisciplinary viewpoints of history, policy studies, cultural studies, sociology and cultural anthropology. In addition to analyzing the realities of division and exclusionism, the authors propose theoretical alternatives to overcome such cultural and social divides.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

part Part 1|49 pages

Context and background

chapter |21 pages

Introduction

Social division and exclusionism in contemporary Japan
ByYoshikazu Shiobara

chapter 1|26 pages

Inclusion and exclusion in neoliberalizing Japan

ByNoah McCormack, Kohei Kawabata

part Part 2|112 pages

Exclusionism and ethnic minorities

chapter 2|15 pages

Historical structures of exclusion and the colonial Korean (Zainichi) diaspora in modern Japan

ByJoel Matthews

chapter 3|18 pages

Ethnic “Korean schools” confront discrimination, hate speech and hate crime

Exclusionism from “above and below” in contemporary Japan
ByWooki Park-Kim, Joel Matthews

chapter 4|17 pages

Backlash

Hate speech, Ainu indigenous denial and historical revisionism in post-DRIPs Japan
ByMark Winchester

chapter 5|15 pages

Mobilizing places

Beyond the politics of essentialism in the Okinawa anti-base struggle
ByShinnosuke Takahashi

chapter 6|17 pages

Exclusionism targeting international marriage couples and their children

ByLawrence Yoshitaka Shimoji, Chiho Ogaya

chapter 7|15 pages

Expanding exclusion

From undocumented residents into “imposter” residents
ByEriko Suzuki

chapter 8|13 pages

On the refugee and asylum seeker situation in Japan from the standpoint of social exclusion

ByEri Ishikawa, Ariel Acosta

part Part 3|76 pages

Exclusionism and social minorities

chapter 9|18 pages

Exclusionism and the Burakumin

Literacy movement, legislative countermeasures and the Sayama Incident
ByMachiko Ishikawa

chapter 10|14 pages

Heterosexual marriage and childbirth as a “natural course of life”

Parenthood as experienced by the generation before the “LGBT boom”
ByMichiko Sambe, Minata Hara

chapter 11|13 pages

The social activism of disabled people in postwar Japan

Eugenics, exclusion and discrimination
ByKohei Inose

chapter 12|15 pages

Discrimination of evacuees in the wake of the Fukushima nuclear disaster

ByShun Harada

chapter 13|14 pages

A coalition of radicals and Housing First practices in homeless movements?

ByTeruhiro Yamakita

part Part 4|34 pages

Theoretical alternatives for overcoming exclusionism

chapter 14|18 pages

Rethinking the principles of “kyōsei” in Japan

Intersections between oldcomers and newcomers
ByKohei Kawabata, Naoko Yamamoto

chapter 15|14 pages

A theoretical perspective for overcoming exclusionism

ByYoshikazu Shiobara, Mikako Suzuki
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