This book explores not only how Japanese society is diversified and unequal, but also how diversity and inequality have caused people to divide into separate realities from which conflict and violence have emerged.

Yoshikazu Shiobara is a Professor in the Faculty of Law at Keio University, Japan.

Kohei Kawabata is an Associate Professor in the Department of International Cooperation and Multicultural Studies at Tsuda University, Japan.

Joel Matthews is a Lecturer in the Faculty of Contemporary Culture at Surugadai University, Japan.

PART 1

Context and background

Introduction: social division and exclusionism in contemporary Japan

YOSHIKAZU SHIOBARA

1 Inclusion and exclusion in neoliberalizing Japan

NOAH McCORMACK AND KOHEI KAWABATA

PART 2

Exclusionism and ethnic minorities

2 Historical structures of exclusion and the colonial Korean (Zainichi) diaspora in modern Japan

JOEL MATTHEWS

3 Ethnic "Korean schools" confront discrimination, hate speech and hate crime: exclusionism from "above and below" in contemporary Japan

WOOKI PARK-KIM (TRANSLATION: JOEL MATTHEWS)

4 Backlash: hate speech, Ainu indigenous denial and historical revisionism in post-DRIPs Japan

MARK WINCHESTER

5 Mobilizing places: beyond the politics of essentialism in the Okinawa anti-base struggle

SHINNOSUKE TAKAHASHI

6 Exclusionism targeting international marriage couples and their children

LAWRENCE YOSHITAKA SHIMOJI AND CHIHO OGAYA

7 Expanding exclusion: from undocumented residents into "imposter" residents

ERIKO SUZUKI

8 On the refugee and asylum seeker situation in Japan from the standpoint of social exclusion

ERI ISHIKAWA (TRANSLATION: ARIEL ACOSTA)

PART 3

Exclusionism and social minorities

9 Exclusionism and the Burakumin: literacy movement, legislative countermeasures and the Sayama Incident

MACHIKO ISHIKAWA

10 Heterosexual marriage and childbirth as a "natural course of life": parenthood as experienced by the generation before the "LGBT boom"

MICHIKO SAMBE (TRANSLATION: MINATA HARA)

11 The social activism of disabled people in postwar Japan: eugenics, exclusion and discrimination

KOHEI INOSE

12 Discrimination of evacuees in the wake of the Fukushima nuclear disaster

SHUN HARADA

13 A coalition of radicals and Housing First practices in homeless movements?

TERUHIRO YAMAKITA

PART 4

Theoretical alternatives for overcoming exclusionism

14 Rethinking the principles of "kyo¯sei" in Japan: intersections between oldcomers and newcomers

KOHEI KAWABATA AND NAOKO YAMAMOTO

15 A theoretical perspective for overcoming exclusionism

YOSHIKAZU SHIOBARA AND MIKAKO SUZUKI

About the Contributors

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