Negotiating Identity in Contemporary Japan
Pang, Ching Lin The problem of Japanese identity has been the core object of study in the discourse of Japanese culture. This work investigates changes in the Japanese ethnonational identity, as an outcome of the interplay among different processes in the transnational cultural flow, through a case study of the kikokushijo or "returnees, " children of expatriate parents who grew up abroad. While previous studies have seen "returnees" as disrupted from Japanes...