ABSTRACT
The Japanese are not homogeneous as a matter of fact. However, the discourse politics in modern Japan has constructed the framework concealing the diversity in Japan. Japan, a country which was feeling the threat of colonization by the West in the 1880s, established RR (Race as Resistance) as the discourse to mobilize collective identity in order to fight against colonization. The feature of the discourse was claiming of unique national culture, concealing of domestic discrepancies, victim consciousness, and denial to invasion by themselves. However, the success resulted expansion of its territory and Japan had to metamorphose its racial identity to Japanize Koreans, Taiwanese, and other minorities. Japan's defeat and separation of Korea and Taiwan in 1945 temporarily resolved the contradicted situation but the economic boom in the 1960s resulted emergence of issues of minorities and immigrant workers again. Investigation on the Japan’s experience showing many patterns of racial and ethnic identity could suggest a universal viewpoint.
