Zainichi Koreans In Japan

Author : Class of 1959 Professor and Dean of International and Area Studies John Lie
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520258207
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Zainichi (Koreans in Japan) written by Class of 1959 Professor and Dean of International and Area Studies John Lie and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2008-11-17 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Sonia Ryang
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520916190
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Diaspora without Homeland written by Sonia Ryang and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2009-04-27 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Yasunori Fukuoka
Publisher : Trans Pacific Press
ISBN 13 : 9780646391656
Total Pages : 374 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Lives of Young Koreans in Japan written by Yasunori Fukuoka and published by Trans Pacific Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Between 1988 and 1993, Fukuoka (sociology, Saitama U.) conducted 150 in-depth interviews with young ethnic Koreans permanently residing in Japan, known as Zainichi Koreans, most of whom are the offspring of Koreans who came to Japan around the time of WWII. The author deduces five types of ethnic orientation among the subjects of her study: pluralist, nationalist, individualist, naturalizing, and ethnic solidarity types. Part one examines case histories of ten Zainichi Koreans, giving two examples of each type. Part two consists of 12 case studies of second and third generation Zainichi Korean women. Distributed by ISBS. c. Book News Inc.

Author : TAEYOUNG. KIM
Publisher : Routledge Contemporary Japan Series
ISBN 13 : 9781032010830
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Zainichi Koreans and Mental Health written by TAEYOUNG. KIM and published by Routledge Contemporary Japan Series. This book was released on 2023-09-25 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Using a qualitative, interview-based approach, Kim investigates how conflicting identities and social marginalization affect the mental health of members of the ethnic Korean minority living in Japan. So-called "Zainichi" Koreans living in Japan have a higher suicide rate than native Japanese, or than any other ethnic group within Japan, a country which has one of the highest suicide rates in the world. Considering themselves neither truly Korean nor wholly Japanese, they are mainly descendants of immigrants who came to Japan during the colonial period in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Kim explores the challenges facing these individuals, including the dilemmas of ethnic education, the discrimination against them by mainstream society, and the consequent impacts on their mental health. An insightful read both for scholars of Japanese culture and society and for anthropologists and sociologists with an interest in the effects of marginalization on ethnic minority citizens more broadly.

Author : Jackie J. Kim-Wachutka
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429013000
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Zainichi Korean Women in Japan written by Jackie J. Kim-Wachutka and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-12-10 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presenting the voices of a unique group within contemporary Japanese society—Zainichi women—this book provides a fresh insight into their experiences of oppression and marginalization that over time have led to liberation and empowerment. Often viewed as unimportant and inconsequential, these women’s stories and activism are now proving to be an integral part of both the Zainichi Korean community and Japanese society. Featuring in-depth interviews from 1994 to the present, three generations of Zainichi Korean women—those who migrated from colonial Korea before or during WWII and the Asia-Pacific War and their Japan-born descendants—share their version of history, revealing their lives as members of an ethnic minority. Discovering voices within constricting patriarchal traditions, the women in this book are now able to tell their history. Ethnography, interviews, and the women’s personal and creative writings offer an in-depth look into their intergenerational dynamics and provide a new way of exploring the hidden inner world of migrant women and the different ways displacement affects subsequent generations. This book goes beyond existing Anglophone and Japanese literatures, to explore the lives of the Zainichi Korean women. As such, it will be invaluable to students and scholars of Japanese and Korean history, culture and society, as well as ethnicity and Women’s Studies.

Author : Sonia Ryang
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136353127
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Koreans in Japan written by Sonia Ryang and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-10-08 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 this minority group, whilst simultaneously highlighting the fact that - despite recent improvement - legal, social and economic constraints continue to exist in their lives.

Author : John Lie
Publisher : Institute of East Asian Studies University of California - B
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 222 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Zainichi Literature written by John Lie and published by Institute of East Asian Studies University of California - B. This book was released on 2018 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A multiple-contributor volume on Zainichi literature, literary works by ethnic or diasporic Koreans in Japan. Includes translations of Japanese-language essays, stories, and poems by seven authors"--

Author : David Chapman
Publisher : Taylor & Francis US
ISBN 13 : 9780415561105
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Zainichi Korean Identity and Ethnicity written by David Chapman and published by Taylor & Francis US. This book was released on 2008 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shedding light on contemporary Japanese society in an international context, Japanese-Korean relations and modern day notions of a multicultural Japan, this book addresses the broad notions and questions of citizenship, identity, ethnicity and belonging through investigation of Japan’s Korean population (zainichi). Despite zainichi Korean existence being integral to, and interwoven with, recent Japanese social history, the debates and discussions of the Korean community in Japan have been largely ignored. Moreover, as a post colonial context, the zainichi Korean situation has drawn scant attention and little investigation outside of Japan. In Zainichi Korean Ethnicity and Identity David Chapman seeks to redress this balance, engaging with recent discourse from within Japan’s Korean population. By taking a close look at how exclusion, marginalisation and privilege work, the book brings insight into the mechanisms of discrimination, and how discourse not only marginalizes individuals and groups, but also how it can create social change and enhance the sense of self. This book will be of interest to students and scholars of Asian studies and of Japanese and Korean politics, culture and society, but also to those with a broader interest in migration studies and the study of identity and ethnicity.

Author : Christopher Donal Scott
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 426 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Invisible Men written by Christopher Donal Scott and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Melissa L. Wender
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
ISBN 13 : 0824860799
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Into the Light written by Melissa L. Wender and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 2010-09-30 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Into the Light is the first anthology to introduce the fiction of Japan’s Korean community (Zainichi Koreans) to the English-speaking world. The collection brings together works by many of the most important Zainichi Korean writers of the twentieth century, from the colonial-era "Into the Light" (1939) by Kim Sa-ryang to "Full House" (1997) by Yu Miri, one of contemporary Japan’s most acclaimed and popular authors. Although diverse in style and subject matter, all of the stories gathered in this volume ask a single consuming question: What does it mean to be Korean in Japan? Some stories record their contemporary milieu, while others focus on internal turmoil or document social and legal discrimination. More generally, they consider the relationship of Korean ethnicity to sexuality, family, culture, politics, and history. Thus the stories provide a fascinating window into the human experience of modernity in Japan and Korea, not only enabling us to track the ways in which grand concepts such as nation, language, empire, economy, and gender have shaped the human imagination, but also entreating us to ask how individual authors have sought to provide insight—or even guidance—on the path that grand history might follow. The volume includes stories by Chong Ch’u-wol, Kim Ch’ang-saeng, Kim Hak-yong, Kim Sa-ryang, Kim Tal-su, Noguchi Kakuchu, Yi Yang-ji, and Yu Miri.