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Title: Nikkei Studies through Ethnic Studies: for more understanding, searching more necessity, for development and advancement of Nikkei people in Japan
Summary:
Understanding diversity has been one of what many Japanese people are willing to understand, as they have been seen waves of globalization and so-called “understanding international-ness” (perhaps best understood as Kokusai Rikai in Japanese) within their society. I have been impressed for the fact that Japanese people have taken a lot of time for discussing the future of their society which diversity has been an integral part—the best example must be non-Japanese workers playing some important roles for the Japanese economy. Japanese-Brazilians, or Nikkei Brazil-jin (Japanese translation), are one of the most known and most popular examples, for they are one of the majority groups of non-Japanese, or Gaikoku-jin (Japanese translation), workers making their lives in Japan. Scholars have been spending so much time understanding and studying their everyday life, and it is important to emphasize that those scholars’ final goal for their research on Japanese-Brazilian workers in Japan (or other Gaikokujin workers) must be to create some resolutions to improve their ascribed status in Japanese society, including education-related issues, community involvement, relation with local Japanese residents and quality of life.
Ethnic Studies is an academic discipline that is meant to first improve socio-economic status of the people who belong to minority groups through various academic research based on the views of those who are on their side, he/she who belongs to a minority group. It is, as mentioned, an interdisciplinary academic field and can be seen as an academic community of history, sociology and anthropology scholars and students. Ideas of Ethnic studies have been brought to Japanese academia.
What I will attempt to discuss during my presentation is to bring some topics of how Ethnic studies can develop Nikkei studies in Japan, in addition to describing how it was emerged in and developed in the US. Is it important and meaningful for conducting a research on Japanese-Brazilians in Japan through Ethnic studies? If so, how can Ethnic studies help developing Nikkei studies in Japan? Ethnic studies will have some hints, for our Nikkei studies and for improving daily lives of Japanese-Brazilians in Japan.
Summary:
Understanding diversity has been one of what many Japanese people are willing to understand, as they have been seen waves of globalization and so-called “understanding international-ness” (perhaps best understood as Kokusai Rikai in Japanese) within their society. I have been impressed for the fact that Japanese people have taken a lot of time for discussing the future of their society which diversity has been an integral part—the best example must be non-Japanese workers playing some important roles for the Japanese economy. Japanese-Brazilians, or Nikkei Brazil-jin (Japanese translation), are one of the most known and most popular examples, for they are one of the majority groups of non-Japanese, or Gaikoku-jin (Japanese translation), workers making their lives in Japan. Scholars have been spending so much time understanding and studying their everyday life, and it is important to emphasize that those scholars’ final goal for their research on Japanese-Brazilian workers in Japan (or other Gaikokujin workers) must be to create some resolutions to improve their ascribed status in Japanese society, including education-related issues, community involvement, relation with local Japanese residents and quality of life.
Ethnic Studies is an academic discipline that is meant to first improve socio-economic status of the people who belong to minority groups through various academic research based on the views of those who are on their side, he/she who belongs to a minority group. It is, as mentioned, an interdisciplinary academic field and can be seen as an academic community of history, sociology and anthropology scholars and students. Ideas of Ethnic studies have been brought to Japanese academia.
What I will attempt to discuss during my presentation is to bring some topics of how Ethnic studies can develop Nikkei studies in Japan, in addition to describing how it was emerged in and developed in the US. Is it important and meaningful for conducting a research on Japanese-Brazilians in Japan through Ethnic studies? If so, how can Ethnic studies help developing Nikkei studies in Japan? Ethnic studies will have some hints, for our Nikkei studies and for improving daily lives of Japanese-Brazilians in Japan.
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