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2017
There is a rich body of literature on the experience of Japanese immigrants in the United States, and there are also numerous accounts of the cultural dislocation felt by American expats in Japan. But what happens when Japanese Americans, born and raised in the United States, are the ones living abroad in Japan? Redefining Japaneseness chronicles how Japanese American migrants to Japan navigate and complicate the categories of Japanese and “foreigner.” Drawing from extensive interviews and fieldwork in the Tokyo area, Jane H. Yamashiro tracks the multiple ways these migrants strategically negotiate and interpret their daily interactions. Following a diverse group of subjects—some of only Japanese ancestry and others of mixed heritage, some fluent in Japanese and others struggling with the language, some from Hawaii and others from the US continent—her study reveals wide variations in how Japanese Americans perceive both Japaneseness and Americanness. Making an important contribution to both Asian American studies and scholarship on transnational migration, Redefining Japaneseness critically interrogates the common assumption that people of Japanese ancestry identify as members of a global diaspora. Furthermore, through its close examination of subjects who migrate from one highly-industrialized nation to another, it dramatically expands our picture of the migrant experience. Check out the website https://redefiningjapaneseness.com Like the book on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/redefiningjapaneseness/ Watch a short interview https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B0u43MQWZAg See a book talk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CGC3D9M6GUk&feature=youtu.be
Ethnic and Racial Studies
Racialized national identity construction in the ancestral homeland: Japanese American migrants in JapanThis article examines Japanese Americans in Japan to illuminate how 'Japanese American' - an ethnic minority identity in the US - is reconstructed in Japan as a racialized national identity. Based on fifty interviews with American citizens of Japanese ancestry conducted between 2004 and 2007, I demonstrate how interactions with Japanese in Japan shape Japanese Americans' racial and national understandings of themselves. After laying out a theoretical framework for understanding the shifting intersection of race, ethnicity, and nationality, I explore the interactive process of racial categorization and ethnic identity assertion for Japanese American transnationals in Japan. This process leads to what I call racialized national identities - the intersection of racial and national identities in an international context - and suggests that US racial minority identities are constructed not only within the US, but abroad as well.
Diaspora, Indigenous, and Minority Education
“Who’s Pitiful Now?”: Othering and Identity Shifts of Japanese Youth From California to Tokyo2018 •
Migrations & Identities 1:2
Deconstructing Nikkeijin: Politics of Representation among People of Japanese Ancestry Migrating from the Americas to Japan2008 •
The Journal of Japanese Studies
Japanese Diasporas: Unsung Pasts, Conflicting Presents, and Uncertain Futures (review)2007 •
Journal of Asian American Studies
Redefining Japaneseness: Japanese Americans in the Ancestral Homeland byJane H. Yamashiro2020 •
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Edited by Yasuko Takezawa and Gary Y. Okihiro. Trans-Pacific Japanese American Studies is a unique collection of essays derived from a series of dialogues held in Tokyo, Kyoto, and Los Angeles on the issues of racializations, gender, communities, and the positionalities of scholars involved in Japanese American studies. The book brings together some of the most renowned scholars of the discipline in Japan and North America. It seeks to overcome past constraints of dialogues between Japan- and U.S.-based scholars by providing opportunities for candid, extended conversations among its contributors. While each contribution focuses on the field of “Japanese American” studies, approaches to the subject vary—ranging from national and village archives, community newspapers, personal letters, visual art, and personal interviews. Research papers are divided into six sections: Racializations, Communities, Intersections, Borderlands, Reorientations, and Teaching. Papers by one or two Japan-based scholar(s) are paired with a U.S.-based scholar, reflecting the book’s intention to promote dialogue and mutuality across national formations. The collection is also notable for featuring underrepresented communities in Japanese American studies, such as Okinawan “war brides,” Koreans, women, and multiracials. Essays on subject positions raise fundamental questions: Is it possible to engage in a truly equal dialogue when English is the language used in the conversation and in a field where English-language texts predominate? How can scholars foster a mutual respect when U.S.-centrism prevails in the subject matter and in the field’s scholarly hierarchy? Understanding foundational questions that are now frequently unstated assumptions will help to disrupt hierarchies in scholarship and work toward more equal engagements across national divides. Although the study of Japanese Americans has reached a stage of maturity, contributors to this volume recognize important historical and contemporary neglects in that historiography and literature. Japanese America and its scholarly representations, they declare, are much too deep, rich, and varied to contain in a singular narrative or subject position.
相愛大学研究論集 the Annual Report of Researches of Soai University
Kikokusha : Japan’s returnees : transnational, transcultural challenges of the late 20th century to the traditional japanese cultural identity1994 •
Academia Medicine
Case study: An unusual and fatal injury: stab wound of a bovine aortic arch anomaly2023 •
D.Luis da Cunha e a ideia de diplomacia em Portugal
D.Luis da Cunha e a ideia de diplomacia em Portugal1999 •
Journal of Kufa Studies Center
القيم البدوية في شعر الغزل عند الشعراء العباسيين في القرنين الرابع والخامس الهجريينComptes Rendus Physique
Continuous-wave mid-infrared laser sources based on difference frequency generation2007 •
DAAAM Proceedings
Recent Tehnological Tendencies of Money Laundering2011 •
AJR. American journal of roentgenology
Hemodynamic response to fluid management in children undergoing dexmedetomidine sedation for MRI2014 •
Advanced Energy Materials
Diode Factor in Solar Cells with Metastable Defects and Back Contact Recombination2022 •
Expert Review of Clinical Immunology
Unmet needs in the management of cardiovascular risk in inflammatory joint diseases2019 •
Interactive CardioVascular and Thoracic Surgery
F-040 * Absolute Cerebral Versus Standard Peripheral Oxygen Saturation in Thoracic Surgery: Does It Really Differ?2013 •
Nigerian Journal of Animal Production
Comparative evaluation of the effects of three local spices on nutrient and organoleptic qualities of rabbit meat2020 •