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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 investigation of Japan's Korean population (zainichi).

Despite zainichi Korean existence being integral to, and interwoven with, recent Japanese social history, the debates and discussions of the Korean community in Japan have been largely ignored. Moreover, as a post colonial context, the zainichi Korean situation has drawn...

Japan's Household Registration System (koseki seido) is an extremely powerful state instrument, and is socially entrenched with a long history of population governance, social control and the maintenance of social order. It provides identity whilst at the same time imposing identity upon everyone registered, and in turn, the state receives validity and legitimacy from the registration of its inhabitants. The study of the procedures and mechanisms for identifying and documenting people provides an important window into understanding statecraft, and by examining the koseki...

In this book, from September of 1948 to August of 1949, a group of teenage girls and boys are on the brink of adolescence. Author David Chapman shares his most cherished memories of growing up in Bradford, Illinois, a prairie village in the years between the end of World War II and the dawn of television. From the excitement of a high school football game to lazy summer evenings, Chapman's fictionalized recollections of days gone by offer a...

Are your exams fast approaching? Are you starting to panic that you're never going to be ready for them?

You're not alone.

It's an unfortunate truth that good study technique is rarely taught in schools, colleges or universities.

Which is where The Lazy Student's Revision Guide comes in.

This book is packed full of study hacks that take you through the revision process in a concise and easy-to-read manner. I understand that you don't have time to sit and read a 300 page manual on how to pass your exams. Let's face it; if you did, then you could...