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1 online resource (viii, 229 pages), Koreans in Japan are a barely known minority, not only in the West but also within Japan itself. This pioneering study analyzes these relations in the context of the particular conditions and constraints that Koreans face in Japanese society. The contributors cover a wide range of topics, including: * the legal and social status of Koreans in Japan* the history of Korean colonial displacement and postcolonial division during the Cold War* ethnic education* women's self-expression. These studies serve to reveal the highly resilient and diverse reality of, Includes bibliographical references (pages 208-225) and index, The politics of legal status, the equation of nationality with ethnonational identity / Chikako Kashiwazaki -- The North Korean homeland of Koreans in Japan / Sonia Ryang -- Political correctness, postcoloniality and the self-representation of \"Koreanness\" in Japan / Koichi Iwabuchi -- Mothers write Ikaino / Melissa Wender -- Reading against the bourgeois and national bodies / Lisa Yoneyama -- Cultural identity in the work of Yi Yang-ji / Carol Hayes -- Korean ethnic schools in occupied Japan, 1945-52 / Hiromitsu Inokuchi -- Korean

Author

Ryang, Sonia

Publisher

London ; New York : Routledge

Published

2000

Language

EN

ISBN

9781299977259

Subjects

Science, History, Social_sciences