Japan's Minorities

Based on original research, Japan's Minorities provides a clear historical introduction to the formation of individual minorities, followed by an analysis of the contemporary situation.

Michael Weiner is Professor of Modern Japanese History and Director of International Studies at Soka University of America

1. Self' and 'Other' in Imperial Japan 2. The Ainu: Indigenous People of Japan 3. "Mixed-Blood" Japanese: A Reconsideration of Race and Purity in Japan 4. Burakumin in Contemporary Japan 5. The Other Other: The Black Presence in The Japanese Experience 6. Creating a Transnational Community: Chinese Newcomers in Japan. 7. Multiethnic Japan and Nihonjin: Looking through Two Exhibitions in 2004 Osaka 8. Zainichi Koreans in History and Memory 9. Okinawa, Ambivalence, Identity, and Japan 10. Japanese Brazilian Ethnic Return Migration and the Making of Japan's Newest Immigrant Minority