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 | | Race and Migration in Imperial Japan: The Limits of Assimilation (The Sheffield Centre for Japanese Studies/Routledge) by Michael Weiner ISBN-10: 9780415062282 ISBN-10: 0-415-06228-4 ISBN-13: 9780415062282 ISBN-13: 978-0-415-06228-2 Hardcover 1994-04-14 Routledge Find Lowest Price |
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Product Description 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. | ||
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A very good and informative study about an obscure subject. M.A. Weiner's "Race and Migration in Imperial Japan" offers a close look at the effects of Japanese imperialism on the lives of millions of Koreans. One who desires to learn how the Koreans in Japan ended up there will learn. This book also teaches how the Koreans in Japan struggled from slums and discrimination to slightly better living conditions, and how the Japanese government continued to discriminate against them. An overall excellent insight into something very few people know anything about. | ||