Japan’s Diversity Dilemmas: Ethnicity, Citizenship, and Education
Posted on Nov 23, 2011 | 2 comments
This book examines the effects of globalization on both new and older ethnic communities. It shows the ways in which minorities, in particular Koreans, are changing their conceptions and practices regarding nationality. It explores issues of human rights and emerging conceptions of citizenship in Japan. It also looks at how forces of globalization are affecting the state ideology of homogeneity and how a new image of diversity and multiculturalism is slowly developing. Several authors focus their attention on implications for education in citizenship education, ethnic education, and international education.
Japan’s Diversity Dilemmas is not just about minorities, but addresses issues of diversity that impact Japan as a nation in three areas: ethnicity, citizenship, and education. As the population diversifies, the linking of ethnicity and citizenship is being challenged and education is a battleground where these struggles occur. This collection of papers by an interdisciplinary group of authors helps readers to understand Japan’s evolving conceptions of the nation and its attempts to balance tensions of unity and diversity.
Soo im Lee, Stephen Murphy-Shigematsu, and Harumi Befu, editors.
Contributions from Hiroshi Tanaka, William Wetherall, Sarah Sakhaee Kashani, Haeyoung Han, David Blake Willis, and Erin Aeran Chung
Published by iUniverse, Lincoln, Nebraska, 2006
Just a query, If I have a Japanese dad and Filipino Mom, and I am cerruntly 22y/o, is there a possibility that I can acquire a japanese nationality or citizenship even if my dad and mom are divorced already? I am carrying my dad’s family name though and cerruntly I am a Filipino Citizen.
the what are you’ question is the tip of the icebreg all my life i have sought out (and thankfully often found!
a sense of belonging and if one is visibly’ hapa (as in there is a definite question as to what one is ethnically’ because of physicality) i believe this quest is relatively universal among hapas and mixed people in general. we all find our own ways to belong i have found my home in new orleans, but i also feel that japan is a home as would hawaii be, being so racially hapa/mixed. i have noticed that some hapas go to many lands and cultures to discover a sense of belonging. have you?i think it is through our own hapa art and culture that we will find a true and deep sense of belonging, ultimately. i write songs, poetry and am creative in many other ways. art allows me to freely express all the different sides of myself. i have written a hapa song’ and i am curious to hear others’ songs about their hapa experience, i know they are out there!i am a hapa mix of: fourth generation japanese american (yonsei) and english/swedish american. but mainly, i am an artist and a human being! 