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Redefining Japaneseness: Japanese Americans in the Ancestral Homeland<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

Rutgers University Press<\/a>
\n2017-01-24
\n224 pages
\n6 x 9
\nCloth ISBN: 978-0-8135-7637-4
\nPaper ISBN: 978-0-8135-7636-7
\nWeb PDF ISBN: 978-0-8135-7639-8
\nePub ISBN: 978-0-8135-7638-1<\/p>\n

Jane H. Yamashiro<\/strong><\/a>, Visiting Scholar
\nAsian American Studies Center
\nUniversity of California, Los Angeles<\/em><\/p>\n

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There is a rich body of literature on the experience of Japanese immigrants in the United States<\/a>, and there are also numerous accounts of the cultural dislocation felt by American expats in Japan<\/a>. But what happens when Japanese Americans, born and raised in the United States, are the ones living abroad in Japan?<\/p>\n

Redefining Japaneseness<\/em> chronicles how Japanese American migrants to Japan navigate and complicate the categories of Japanese and \u201cforeigner.\u201d Drawing from extensive interviews and fieldwork in the Tokyo<\/a> area, Jane H. Yamashiro tracks the multiple ways these migrants strategically negotiate and interpret their daily interactions. Following a diverse group of subjects\u2014some of only Japanese ancestry and others of mixed heritage, some fluent in Japanese and others struggling with the language, some from Hawaii<\/a> and others from the US continent\u2014her study reveals wide variations in how Japanese Americans perceive both Japaneseness and Americanness.<\/p>\n

Making an important contribution to both Asian American studies and scholarship on transnational migration, Redefining Japaneseness<\/em> critically interrogates the common assumption that people of Japanese ancestry identify as members of a global diaspora. Furthermore, through its close examination of subjects who migrate from one highly-industrialized nation to another, it dramatically expands our picture of the migrant experience.<\/p>\n

Table Of Contents<\/strong><\/p>\n