The new strangers: Japan beyond “the modern myth of homogeneity”
I. Modernity and the predicted demise of ethnicity
II. Wareware Nipponjin (“We Japanese”)
A. Did Japan exist before the 1860s?
B. Imperializing a nation-state
C. Japanese-ness as the civil religion of mainstream Japan
D. Minorities and other marginals: Conceptualizing the stigmatized in Japanese society
III. Hisabetsu Burakumin: Inside “outcastes”
IV. Resident Koreans in Japan: In limbo between host country and homeland
V. Ainu: Japan’s aboriginal ethnic minority
VI. Okinawans: Caught between two occupations, Japanese and American
VII. Day laborers and foreign workers: Doing the dirty work
VIII. Brazilian-Japanese or Japanese-Brazilians? Returning ethnics and transnational migrants
A. “On the line at Yusumi Motors” (Joshua Roth)
B. The Shimura family between Brazil and Japan (Sarah LeBaron von Baeyer)
IX. Is post-mainstream Japan turning ethnically pluralist?