Transcultural Japan: At the Borderlands of Race, Gender and Identity

by Stephen Murphy-Shigematsu and David Blake Willis

Transcultural Japan provides a critical examination of being Other in Japan. Portraying the multiple intersections of race, ethnicity, class, and gender, the book suggests ways in which the transcultural borderlands of Japan reflect globalization in this island nation. The authors show the diversity of Japan from the inside, revealing an extraordinarily complex new society in sharp contrast to the persistent stereotypical images held of a regimented,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415368901
• ISBN13: 9780415368902
• Release Date: January 2008
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 368 Pages
• Weight: 1.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.1" x 9.2"