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| #3746992 in Books | Harvard University Press | 2001-01-15 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 1.16 x6.53 x9.62l,1.10 | File type: PDF | 272 pages | ||12 of 13 people found the following review helpful.| A fascinating study of some of the myths of modern Japan.|By A Customer|As a 17 year resident of Japan, I thoroughly enjoyed Lie's book. He has written a highly readable account of how modern Japan has created a myth of monoethnicity that serves as a source of national identity. As a Korean who spent his youth in Japan before emigrating to the United States, Lie is well equip|From Library Journal|This scholarly but highly interesting book explodes the popular myth that Japan is a monoethnic society. Even the Japanese themselves (Yamato) often have heard little or nothing of the Ainu, Okinawans, Burakumin, Koreans, and Chinese among t
Multiethnic Japan challenges the received view of Japanese society as ethnically homogeneous. Employing a wide array of arguments and evidence--historical and comparative, interviews and observations, high literature and popular culture--John Lie recasts modern Japan as a thoroughly multiethnic society.
Lie casts light on a wide range of minority groups in modern Japanese society, including the Ainu, Burakumin (descendants of premodern outcasts), Chine...
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