Zainichi Korean Identity and Ethnicity

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 investigating Japan's Korean population - zainichi.

Autorentext

David Chapman is coordinator of Japanese studies at the University of South Australia in Adelaide. He is presently conducting research at Waseda University in Tokyo as a Japanese Society for the Promotion of Science Postdoctoral Fellow.

Inhalt

1. Introduction 2. Zainichi Activism and the Japanese State 3. The 'Third Way' 4. Citizenship 5. Dealing with the Past 6. The Fourth Choice 7. Conclusion