Race and Migration in Imperial Japan

by Michael Weiner

Overview

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'.
Michael Weiner pursues a second major theme of colonial migration; its causes and consequences. Rather than merely identifying the 'push factors', the analysis focuses on the more dynamic 'pull factors' that determined immigrant destinations. Similarly, rather than focusing upon the immigrant, the author examines the structural need for low-cost temporary labour that was filled by Korean immigrants.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781136121326
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	09/27/2013
Series:	The University of Sheffield/Routledge Japanese Studies Series
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	292
File size:	4 MB

About the Author

Micheal Weiner- Director of the Centre for Japanese Studies at the University of Sheffield.

Table of Contents

Introduction; Chapter 1 Race, nation and empire; Chapter 2 Migration: first phase; Chapter 3 Some consequences of Cultural Rule; Chapter 4 Migration, 1925–1938; Chapter 5 Assimilation and opposition; Chapter 6 The mobilisation of Koreans during the Second World War; Chapter 7 The limits of assimilation;