Function-Based Spatiality and the Development of Korean Communities in Japan - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Function-Based Spatiality and the Development of Korean Communities in Japan write by David Rands. This book was released on 2014-05-21. Function-Based Spatiality and the Development of Korean Communities in Japan available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Function-Based Spatiality and the Development of Korean Communities in Japan utilizes the theoretical model of complex adaptive systems and introduces the concept of function-based spatiality to investigate the roles of the urban environments of Tokyo and Osaka in the development of Korean communities in Japan. Analysis of distinct Korean communities allows for the examination of urban factors of each city which contributed to the patterns of Korean immigration and community formation. By utilizing a comparative narrative of the two cities, distinctions between the organic growth of Osaka and the planned city of Tokyo are illuminated. Additionally, the discussion utilizes the concept of function-based spatiality to show how each city interacted with its surrounding regional, national, and global spheres. The functions of Tokyo, as a gateway to Western modernization and center of the Japanese state, shaped the interactions with Korean immigrants. Likewise, Osaka’s functions as a center of mercantilism and second city played a large role in how Koreans were incorporated into the urban ethnoscapes. Taken together, these two examples provide insight to the dynamics of urban systems on the development of immigrant communities.
Zainichi (Koreans in Japan)
Zainichi (Koreans in Japan) - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Zainichi (Koreans in Japan) write by John Lie. This book was released on 2008-11-17. Zainichi (Koreans in Japan) available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book traces the origins and transformations of a people-the Zainichi, or Koreans “residing in Japan.” Using a wide range of arguments and evidence-historical and comparative, political and social, literary and pop-cultural-John Lie reveals the social and historical conditions that gave rise to Zainichi identity, while exploring its vicissitudes and complexity. In the process he sheds light on the vexing topics of diaspora, migration, identity, and group formation.
The Korean Diaspora in Post War Japan
The Korean Diaspora in Post War Japan - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Korean Diaspora in Post War Japan write by Myung Ja Kim. This book was released on 2017-05-30. The Korean Diaspora in Post War Japan available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The indistinct status of the Zainichi has meant that, since the late 1940s, two ethnic Korean associations, the Chongryun (pro-North) and the Mindan (pro-South) have been vying for political loyalty from the Zainichi, with both groups initially opposing their assimilation in Japan. Unlike the Korean diasporas living in Russia, China or the US, the Zainichi have become sharply divided along political lines as a result. Myung Ja Kim examines Japan's changing national policies towards the Zainichi in order to understand why this group has not been fully integrated into Japan. Through the prism of this ethnically Korean community, the book reveals the dynamics of alliances and alignments in East Asia, including the rise of China as an economic superpower, the security threat posed by North Korea and the diminishing alliance between Japan and the US. Taking a post-war historical perspective, the research reveals why the Zainichi are vital to Japan's state policy revisionist aims to increase its power internationally and how they were used to increase the country's geopolitical leverage.With a focus on International Relations, this book provides an important analysis of the mechanisms that lie behind nation-building policy, showing the conditions controlling a host state's treatment of diasporic groups.
The Evolving Military Balance in the Korean Peninsula and Northeast Asia
The Evolving Military Balance in the Korean Peninsula and Northeast Asia - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Evolving Military Balance in the Korean Peninsula and Northeast Asia write by Anthony H. Cordesman. This book was released on 2013-07-10. The Evolving Military Balance in the Korean Peninsula and Northeast Asia available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The Evolving Military Balance in the Korean Peninsula and Northeast Asia describes the strategy, force deployments, and the military balance in potential current and future scenarios involving the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, Republic of Korea, People’s Republic of China, Japan, and the United States. The analysis in these volumes shows how tensions between the Koreas—and the potential involvement of the China, Japan, Russia, and the United States—create a nearly open-ended spectrum of possible conflicts. These range from posturing and threats (“wars of intimidation”) to a major conventional conflict on the Korean Peninsula to intervention by outside powers like the United States and China to the extreme of nuclear conflict. The analysis shows that the Korean balance is sharply affected by the uncertain mix of cooperation and competition between the United States and China. The U.S. rebalancing of its forces to Asia and the steady modernization of Chinese forces, in particular the growth of Chinese sea-air-missile capabilities, affect the balance in the Koreas and Northeast Asia. They also raise the possibility of far more intense conflicts that could extend far beyond the boundaries of the Koreas.
Diaspora without Homeland
Diaspora without Homeland - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Diaspora without Homeland write by Sonia Ryang. This book was released on 2009-04-27. Diaspora without Homeland available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. More than one-half million people of Korean descent reside in Japan today—the largest ethnic minority in a country often assumed to be homogeneous. This timely, interdisciplinary volume blends original empirical research with the vibrant field of diaspora studies to understand the complicated history, identity, and status of the Korean minority in Japan. An international group of scholars explores commonalities and contradictions in the Korean diasporic experience, touching on such issues as citizenship and belonging, the personal and the political, and homeland and hostland.
