ABSTRACT
This chapter attempts to examine contrasting representations of oldcomers (who arrived in Japan during the colonial era) and newcomers (who arrived in Japan during the 1980s amid Japan’s globalization) and reconsider inclusive/exclusive perceptions within multicultural practices and ideologies in contemporary Japan. This chapter argues that they are divided under the current multicultural perceptions in Japan. As a result, it also divides our perception toward them and makes it difficult to share the common issues and difficulties they are facing. For us to achieve an affluent multicultural society by overcoming the divided perceptions toward newcomers and oldcomers, we must start to reimagine how those divided perceptions fundamentally intersect each other in our everyday lives. Therefore, in this chapter, we examine issues surrounding oldcomers, particularly Zainichi Koreans, as well as newcomer immigrants from South America and illuminate the invisible spheres behind official multicultural policies and image perception by clarifying how the problems intersect with other social issues beyond divided perceptions. When we attempt to redefine divisions as intersections, we can reimagine diversified multicultural practices in our everyday lives.
