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Reconstruction of Minority Identities in 21st century Japan

Reconstruction of Minority Identities in 21st century Japan

by Yuko Nishimura Introduction: In 1968, Shintaro Ishihara (now the governor of Tokyo) stated, ‘there is no other country like Japan, people who are virtually...

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Building Sustainable Imagined Communities

Building Sustainable Imagined Communities

by Bruce White As social animals human beings could be said to occupy two kinds of worlds simultaneously. The first of these could be seen as the concrete world...

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Here, There, Me

Here, There, Me

Here, There, and Me is a compilation of stories and reflections from a new generation of mixed cultural heritage children who grew up in Japan. “Here, There,...

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