Zainichi (Koreans in Japan): Diasporic Nationalism and Postcolonial Identity. By John Lie. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2008. xiv, 229 pp. $29.95 (paper).

Lim, Youngmi

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“…Japan's colonial empire came to be very diverse, and the colonized populations that fell under this umbrella were thought to be tangible components of Japan's empire project, albeit subjugated ones. This diverse form of collectivity exists in stark contrast to contemporary notions of Japanese identity, which emerged in the postwar period and emphasized essentialist notions ethnoracial homogeneity (Lie 2001;Oguma 1995).…”

Section: Japanese Identity and Native-level Cultural Capitalmentioning

confidence: 88%

“…Such practices were also at work in Japan's colonies, where colonial administrators implemented repressive language and cultural assimilation policies. The most stringent of these were implemented on the Korean Peninsula, where for a time, Korean language and cultural practices were banned in the late 1930s, forcing Koreans to use Japanese as part of an effort to shape Koreans into good "subjects" of the emperor (Kim-Rivera 2002;Lie 2008).…”

Section: Japanese Identity and Native-level Cultural Capitalmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Much nihonjinron writing connects these unique psychocultural and linguistic traits to ethnoracial homogeneity. In doing so, Japan's diversity is downplayed to strategically conceptualize Japan as a space absent of diversity (Befu 2001, p. 69;Lie 2001;Oguma 1995;Yoshino 1992). Befu discusses a nihonjinron writer, linguist Suzuki Takao, who identified racial homogeneity as being the first component of Japan's many homogenous facets (Suzuki 1980).…”

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Language and cultural capital in the discursive maintenance of Japanese identity

Capobianco¹

2023

International Journal of Asian Studies

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This paper explains how the possession of linguistic and cultural capital, real and imagined, works to “make” people Japanese and reify the boundary of Japanese identity. Drawing on case studies of celebrities with multiple heritage and ethnographic data, this paper shows how discursive associations with possessing cultural capital (re)create boundaries of Japanese identity, incorporating potential out-group members and excluding ostensible in-group members. The paper argues that the possession of native-level cultural capital will become an important way of differentiating “Japanese” from Others henceforth. These discursive processes apply old hegemonic ideologies in novel ways, allowing for the perpetuation of extant identity discourses and cultural institutions to be reproduced with new faces. It also argues that cultural capital is a more practical way of categorizing Japanese people from Others than identity constructions such as race and ethnicity. In doing so, it also demonstrates how Japanese people possess multiple understandings of Japanese authenticity, which both facilitates and hinders the absorption of potential Others into the collective.

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Section: Japanese Identity and Native-level Cultural Capitalmentioning

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Language and cultural capital in the discursive maintenance of Japanese identity

Capobianco¹

2023

International Journal of Asian Studies

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“…Chinese and Korean nationals living in Japan during this period were forced to completely assimilate to Japanese cultural norms in order to re‐gain citizenship. Most opted to remain categorized as Special Permanent Residents, a status that allows the bearer and their offspring to maintain legal residence in Japan without becoming citizens (Chung, 2010; Lie, 2008).…”

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“…Most of these newly arrived Chinese migrants entered as students or trainees and are somewhat attributable to China's increasing affluence and internationalization policies over this period (Liu-Farrer, 2009. Two of the most prominent reasons behind the decline in the population of Korean nationals living in Japan are intermarriage of the long-residing Korean population with native-born Japanese and increased numbers of younger long-residing Koreans acquiring Japanese citizenship (Lie, 2009;Ryang, 2013). Africans make up a small portion of the already small number of foreign residents in Japan.…”

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Bifurcated incorporation and migrant social mobility in Japan

Ivory

2022

International Migration

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The context of reception is crucial in establishing different mobility pathways for migrants within host societies. Given that access to government resources is increasingly reserved for citizens and permanent residents and most states provide relatively few avenues to naturalization or permanent residence, host country human capital and social networks are often vital for upward social mobility. I use a variety of research methods including 60 semi‐structured interviews, over 800 hour of participant and non‐obtrusive observation, and ethnography from a 14‐month period in 2011–2012 in the greater Tokyo metropolitan area to investigate how Sub‐Saharan African migrants pursue mobility within Japanese society. I theorize that there are two distinct groups of long‐term staying migrants in Japan: one initially incorporated as unskilled laborers and another initially incorporated as skilled laborers. Migrants initially incorporated as skilled workers have comparatively greater access to state resources and discretion to incorporate as individuals. Migrants initially incorporated as unskilled laborers must rely on the intervention of native‐born individuals in order to experience upward mobility. These findings suggest that visa status is an important signal of initial migrant incorporation trajectory and a significant moderating factor for individual outcomes and social mobility in Japan.

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Defying national homogeneity: Hidden acts ofZainichiKorean resistance in Japan

Robillard-Martel

2022

Critique of Anthropology

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This article draws attention to the shifting dialectical relationship that exists between everyday acts of resistance and the forms of domination they seek to subvert. Using ethnographic data collected in Osaka’s Koreatown, we analyze some of the ways in which young Zainichi Koreans, the descendants of colonial subjects who migrated to Japan, use daily acts of self-preservation to chip away at hegemonic notions of Japanese national homogeneity. Seemingly trivial choices to dissimulate one’s identity, transmit cultural practices, and maintain historical memory constitute neglected forms of opposition that illustrate the contextual nature of Zainichi Korean resistance against marginalization and forced assimilation. These strategies offer a reservoir of resources that can be tapped into for collective political action, keeping the embers of resistance alive in between periods of open protest.

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Zainichi (Koreans in Japan): Diasporic Nationalism and Postcolonial Identity. By John Lie. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2008. xiv, 229 pp. $29.95 (paper).

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Language and cultural capital in the discursive maintenance of Japanese identity

Language and cultural capital in the discursive maintenance of Japanese identity

Bifurcated incorporation and migrant social mobility in Japan

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