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.
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.
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.
Voices of the Korean Minority in Postwar Japan
Voices of the Korean Minority in Postwar 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 Voices of the Korean Minority in Postwar Japan write by Erik Ropers. This book was released on 2018-12-07. Voices of the Korean Minority in Postwar Japan available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Shedding new light on how the histories of zainichi Koreans have been written, consumed, and discussed, this book addresses the roots of postwar debates concerning the wartime experiences of Koreans in Japan. Providing an overview of the complicated historiography, it explores the experiences of Koreans located at Ground Zero in Hiroshima and Nagasaki, as well as the history and processes that coerced Korean women into military prostitution. These debates and controversies continue to attract attention regionally and globally, and as this book demonstrates, they are deeply embedded in ideas dating back decades earlier. By tracing the roots of these debates in historical writings from local history groups to zainichi and Japanese scholars, we may see how written histories have been used for particular social, political, or cultural purposes, and how they have lent support to certain interpretations and memories of past events across the political spectrum. Interdisciplinary at its core, Voices of the Korean Minority in Postwar Japan will appeal to audiences including those interested in modern Japanese and Korean history, historiography and methodology, and memory studies.
Writing Selves in Diaspora
Writing Selves in Diaspora - 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 Writing Selves in Diaspora write by Ryang. This book was released on 2008-08-28. Writing Selves in Diaspora available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Linking autobiographic writings by Korean women in Japan and the United States and the author's ethnographic insights, Writing Selves in Diaspora presents an original, profound, and powerful intervention—both literary and anthropological—in our understanding of life in diaspora, being female, and forming selves. Each chapter offers unique and original discussion on the intersection between gender and diaspora on one hand and the process of the self's formation on the other. Chapters are mutually engaging, yet have independent themes to explore: language and self, romantic love, exile and totalitarianism, the ethic of care, and critique of medicalization of identity. Through the introduction of women's lives and introspection and interpretation accorded to them, this book delivers an unprecedented text of candor and courage. This book will have appeal for both academic and intellectually-informed lay readers interested in gender, self, and diaspora.
