{"id":62456,"date":"2021-12-02T20:21:47","date_gmt":"2021-12-02T20:21:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=62456"},"modified":"2022-12-16T03:22:08","modified_gmt":"2022-12-16T03:22:08","slug":"whereas-japanese-enthusiastically-embraced-cultural-mixing-with-the-u-s-they-rejected-biological-mixing-outright-seeing-mixed-race-babies-as-a-threat-to-their-racial-purity-and-tantamount-to-an-ass","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=62456","title":{"rendered":"Whereas Japanese enthusiastically embraced cultural mixing with the U.S., they rejected biological mixing outright, seeing mixed-race babies as a threat to their racial purity and tantamount to an assault on the Japanese race itself."},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>The Japanese public echoed the state\u2019s abhorrence for this population of biracial babies. Whereas Japanese enthusiastically embraced cultural mixing with the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/United_States\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">U.S.<\/a>, they rejected biological mixing outright, seeing mixed-race babies as a threat to their racial purity and tantamount to an assault on the Japanese race itself. Black-Japanese babies were especially despised, but all biracial mixtures encountered greater prejudice in <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Japan\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Japan<\/a> than did biracial \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/G.I.\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">GI<\/a> babies\u201d in <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Germany\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Germany<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/United_Kingdom\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Britain<\/a>.<sup>5<\/sup> Even <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Miki_Sawada\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sawada Miki<\/a> (\u6ca2\u7530\u7f8e\u559c, 1901-80), who in 1948 founded an orphanage for occupation babies, defended the policy of separating Japanese and biracial orphans. Mixed-race children, she felt, possessed \u201cmental and physical handicaps\u201d and in any case would never be accepted into Japanese society due to \u201cthe people\u2019s traditional dislike for <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Eurasian_(mixed_ancestry)\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Eurasian<\/a> children.\u201d<sup>6<\/sup> By 1955, Sawada\u2019s orphanage had accepted 468 babies and negotiated 262 adoptions in the U.S. No Japanese adoption service accepted Sawada\u2019s children, however, and a Japanese couple who had adopted one \u201creturned it when the neighborhood prejudice they encountered proved too strong.\u201d<sup>7<\/sup><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>W. Puck Brecher, \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=61930\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Eurasians and Racial Capital in a \u201cRace War\u201d<\/a>,\u201d <em>Asia Pacific Perspectives: A Publication of the Center for Asia Pacific Studies<\/em>, Volume 14, Number 2 (Spring 2017). 4. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=61930\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/jayna.usfca.edu\/asia-pacific-perspectives\/center-asia-pacific\/perspectives\/v14n2\/brecher.html<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Japanese public echoed the state\u2019s abhorrence for this population of biracial babies. Whereas Japanese enthusiastically embraced cultural mixing with the U.S., they rejected biological mixing outright, seeing mixed-race babies as a threat to their racial purity and tantamount to an assault on the Japanese race itself. Black-Japanese babies were especially despised, but all biracial [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[26941,33706,32558,32171],"class_list":["post-62456","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-excerpts","tag-asia-pacific-perspectives","tag-asia-pacific-perspectives-a-publication-of-the-center-for-asia-pacific-studies","tag-sawada-miki","tag-w-puck-brecher"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62456","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=62456"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62456\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64071,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62456\/revisions\/64071"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=62456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=62456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=62456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}