Japan Studies: Japanese Folklore : Global Issues / Migration / Diaspora

Global context of Japan outside Japan / Harumi Befu -- Objects, city, and wandering : the invisibility of the Japanese in France / Kazuhiko Yatabe -- Positioning "globalization" at overseas subsidiaries of Japanese multinational corporations / Mitchell W. Sedgwick -- Japanese businesswomen of Yaohan Hong Kong : toward a diversified globalization of a Japanese "ethnoscape" / Dixon Heung Wah Wong -- Neverland lost : judo cultures in Austria, Japan, and elsewhere struggling for cultural hegemony at the Vienna Budokan / Sabine Frühstück and Wolfram Manzenreiter -- Soka Gakkai in Germany : the story of a qualified success / Sanda Ionescu -- Japanese comics coming to Hong Kong / Cherry Sze-Ling Lai and Dixon Heung Wah Wong -- Japanese popular music in Hong Kong : analysis of global/local cultural relations / Masashi Ogawa -- Global culture in question : contemporary Japanese photography in American / Julia Adeney Thomas -- Collision of discourses : Japanese and Hong Kong Chinese during the Diaoyu/Senkaku Islands crisis / Gordon Mathews -- Images of the Japanese welfare state / Roger Goodman -- Consuming the modern : globalization, things Japanese, and the politics of cultural identity in Korea / Seung-Mi Han -- Japan through French eyes : "the ephemeral" as a cultural production / Sylvie Guichard-Anguis -- Yamatodamashi of the Takasago volunteers of Taiwan : a reading of the postcolonial situation / Chih-Huei Huang.

Looking for home in all the wrong places / Jeffrey Lesser -- Japanese, Brazilians, Nikkei: a short history of identity building and homemaking / Jeffrey Lesser -- Speaking in the tongue of antipode: Japanese Brazilian fantasy on the origin of language / Shuhei Hosokawa -- Identity transformations among Okinawans and their descendants in Brazil / Koichi Mori -- Circle K rules / Karen Tei Yamashita -- Searching for home, wealth, pride, and "class": Japanese Brazilians in the "Land of Yen" / Angelo Ishi -- Urashima Taro's ambiguating practices: the significance of overseas voting rights for elderly Japanese migrants to Brazil / Joshua Hotaka Roth -- Homeland-less abroad: transnational liminality, social alienation, and personal malaise / Takeyuki (Gaku) Tsuda -- Feminization of Japanese-Brazilian labor migration to Japan / Keiko Yamanaka -- Do Japanese-Brazilians exist? / Daniel T. Linger.

Globalization as human dispersal : Nikkei in the world / Harumi Befu -- The impact of contemporary globalization on Nikkei identities / Lane Ryo Hirabayashi, Akemi Kikumura-Yano, and James A. Hirabayashi -- In search of the hyphen : Nikkei and the struggle over Brazilian national identity / Jeffrey Lesser -- Licensed agencies for relief in Asia : relief materials and Nikkei populations in the United States and Canada / Masako Iino -- An approach to the formation of Nikkei identity in Peru : Issei and Nisei / Raúl Araki -- The "labor pains" of forging a Nikkei community : a study of the Santa Cruz region in Bolivia / Kozy Amemiya -- "The twain shall meet" in the Nisei? Japanese language education and U.S.-Japan relations, 1900-1940 / Teruko Kumei -- The Nikkei's education in the Japanese language in Paraguay : the Japanese educational system and its influence on the colonies / Emi Kasamatsu -- Peruvian Nikkei : a sociopolitical portrait / Amelia Morimoto -- Pathways to power : comparative perspectives on the emergence of Nikkei ethnic political traditions / Lane Ryo Hirabayashi -- I woman, I man, I Nikkei : symbolic construction of femininity and masculinity in the Japanese community of Peru / Doris Moromisato Miasato -- Migration as a negotiation of gender : recent Japanese immigrant women in Canada / Audrey Kobayashi -- Race, gender, ethnicity and the narrative of national identity in the films of Tizuka Yamazaki / Naomi Hoki Moniz -- The Japanese Brazilian dekasegi phenomenon : an economic perspective / Edson Mori -- The dekasegi phenomenon and the education of Japanese Brazilian children in Japanese schools / Masato Ninomiya -- The emigration of Argentines of Japanese descent to Japan / Marcelo G. Higa -- The Nikkei negotiation of minority/majority dynamics in Peru and the United States / Steven Masami Ropp -- The uchinanchu diaspora and the boundary of "Nikkei" / Makoto Arakaki -- Nikkeijin and multicultural coexistence in Japan : Kobe after the Great Earthquake / Yasuko I. Takezawa -- Retrospect and prospects / Lane Ryo Hirabayashi, Akemi Kikumura-Yano, and James A. Hirabayashi.

Introduction: The experience of Japan’s new migrants and overseas communities in anthropological, geographical, historical and sociological perspective – PART 1: Comparative context -- Contrasts in economic growth and immigration policy in Japan, the European Union and the United States – The Pacific-Asian context of international migration to Japan – PART 2: Japanese overseas communities -- Policy problems relating to labour migration control in Japan – The Japanese in London: from transience to settlement? -- Segregation and the ethnoscape: the Japanese business community in Dusseldorf – The Japanese in Singapore: the dynamics of an expatriate community – the Japanese community in Hong Kong in the 1990s: the diversity of strategies and intentions – Living in a transnational community within a multi-ethnic city: making a localised ‘Japan’ in Los Angeles – PART 3: Japan’s new migrant groups – Iranian immigrant workers in Japan and their networks – The lifestyles and ethnic identity of Vietnamese youth residing in Japan – The changing perception and status of Japan’s returnee children (kikokushijo) – Nikkei communities in Japan – Transnational strategies by Japanese-Brazilian migrants in the age of IT – Paradoxes of ethnicity-based immigration: Peruvian and Japanese-Peruvian migrants in Japan

Introduction: globalization and social change in contemporary Japan / Jerry Eades -- Globalization as human dispersal: from the perspective of Japan / Harumi Befu -- The globalizations of Japanese managers / Mitchell W. Sedgwick -- Trends in value change in contemporary Japan / Ulrich Möhwald -- Education reform in Japan: fixing education or fostering economic nation-statism? /Brian McVeigh -- The diversification of employment and women's work in contemporary Japan / Beverley Bishop -- Blurring the boundaries of the Buraku (min) / John H. Davis, Jr. -- Yoseba and Ninpudashi: changing patterns of employment on the fringes of the Japanese economy / Tom Gill.; (cont.) The Yakuza and the law / Wolfgang Herbert -- Houses of everlasting bliss: globalization and the production of Buddhist atlars in Hikone / Carla and Jerry Eades, Yuriko Nishiyama, and Hiroko Yanase -- A mountain of problems: ethnography among Mount Haguro's feuding Yamabushi / Andreas Riessland -- Received dreams: consumer capitalism, social process, and the management of the emotions in contemporary Japan / John Clammer.

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