By John Lie
Multiethnic Japan demanding situations the acquired view of eastern society as ethnically homogeneous. applying a big selection of arguments and evidence--historical and comparative, interviews and observations, excessive literature and well known culture--John Lie recasts sleek Japan as a completely multiethnic society.
Lie casts mild on a variety of minority teams in sleek eastern society, together with the Ainu, Burakumin (descendants of premodern outcasts), chinese language, Koreans, and Okinawans. In so doing, he depicts the trajectory of contemporary eastern identity.
Surprisingly, Lie argues that the idea in a monoethnic Japan is a post–World struggle II phenomenon, and he explores the formation of the monoethnic ideology. He additionally makes a common argument in regards to the nature of nationwide identification, delving into the mechanisms of social category, signification, and id.
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The Second Opening of Japan 17 There were, in addition, many scholarly studies. Some invoked econometric models and comparative examples to illuminate the Japanese situation (Gotà 1990; Tezuka, Komai, Ono, and Ogata 1992). Many people discussed seriously the potential impact of immigration and its unintended consequences for Japanese society. The desire to forestall the formation of an underclass, such as those existing in contemporary Europe, is not necessarily a covert expression of racism. Very few would, after all, advocate the end of all border control.
The reality of past and present inequality in Japan contradicts the assumption of a universal middle-class society. In the Tokugawa period the rigid status hierarchy, encapsulated in the shorthand shi-nÃ-kÃ-shà (samurai, farmer, craftsperson, merchant), precluded status mobility and interstatus marriage (Minegishi 1989:chap. 2). Although the Meiji Restoration introduced features of formally egalitarian citizenship, prewar Japan clearly distinguished the hereditary elite—the imperial household (kÃzoku), nobility (kazoku), and former samurai (shizoku)—and commoners (heimin) (Lebra 1993:57–60), as well as Burakumin (shin heimin).
In the late twentieth century, Japan was said to face a problem of comparable magnitude to this turning point in modern Japanese history (Tezuka 1989:9–21). The sakoku faction argued that foreign workers would undermine Japanese uniqueness. Yano TÃru (1988:46–49), for example, wrote that the emperor system and the Japanese worldview are unique and should be protected from foreigners. In a similar vein, Nishio Kanji (1988) warned that the non-Japanese population would cause the social disorganization that he observed in other countries.
