"Multiethnic Japan" challenges the received view of Japanese
society as ethnically homogeneous. Employing a wide array of
arguments and evidence--historical and comparative, interviews and
observations, high literature and popular culture--John Lie recasts
modern Japan as a thoroughly multiethnic society.
Lie casts light on a wide range of minority groups in modern
Japanese society, including the Ainu, Burakumin (descendants of
premodern outcasts), Chinese, Koreans, and Okinawans. In so doing,
he depicts the trajectory of modern Japanese identity.
Surprisingly, Lie argues that the belief in a monoethnic Japan
is a post-World War II phenomenon, and he explores the formation of
the monoethnic ideology. He also makes a general argument about the
nature of national identity, delving into the mechanisms of social
classification, signification, and identification.
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