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Bunka Seiji
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Colonial Administration
Common Language
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Crew Boss
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Heimin Shimbun
Higher Common Schools
immigrants
japanese
Japanese Student Movement
Japanese Trade Union Movement
Keijo Imperial University
korean
Korean Communist
Korean Conscripts
Korean Immigrants
Korean Labourers
Korean Students
Korean Workers
labour
MITI
Oriental Development Company
Peace Preservation Law
police
Police Affairs Bureau
Post-secondary Education
Public Procurator
Reformist Administration
Social Affairs Bureau
students
Takekoshi Yosaburo
workers
Yoshino Sakuzo
Product details
- ISBN 9780415867689
- Weight: 540g
- Dimensions: 138 x 216mm
- Publication Date: 07 Feb 2014
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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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.
Micheal Weiner- Director of the Centre for Japanese Studies at the University of Sheffield.
