Redefining Japaneseness: Japanese Americans in the Ancestral Homeland

by Jane H. Yamashiro

There is a rich body of literature on the experience of Japanese immigrants in the United States, and there are also numerous accounts of the cultural dislocation felt by American expats in Japan. But what happens when Japanese Americans, born and raised in the United States, are the ones living abroad in Japan? Redefining Japaneseness chronicles how Japanese American migrants to Japan navigate and complicate the categories of Japanese and...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813576369
• ISBN13: 9780813576367
• Release Date: January 2017
• Publisher: Rutgers University Press
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.9" x 8.9"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher