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Provides a critical examination of being Other in Japan. Portraying the multiple intersections of race, ethnicity, class, and gender, this book suggests ways in which the transcultural borderlands of Japan reflect globalization in this island nation. It reports regional, national, and cosmopolitan movements.

Historically Japan has alternated between periods of celebration of a diverse, multicultural society and severe spells of xenophobia and persecution of the Other. This collection of multidisciplinary essays re-introduces the idea of Japan as a multicultural society and reflects a rapidly changing Japan as the Japanese confront a new range of diversity in their midst.

Shedding new light on the manifestations of difference in Japan from a diverse range of authors and perspectives, this extraordinary book is a study of those persons who are very much part of Japanese society...