Diversity in Japanese Culture and Language

Part 1 Introduction: culture and diversity in Japan, Gaynor Macdonald and John C. Maher. Part 2 Historical and cultural frameworks: nationalism and cultural pluralism in modern Japan - Soetsu Yanagi and the Mingei Movement, M. William Steele the sociology of ethnocentrism in Japan, Hideichiro Nakano the Ainu - construction of an image, Richard Siddle the right stuff - towards environmental liguistics, John C. Maher and Charles Li. Part 3 Other voices - Ainu, Korean and people of the Buraku: deprivation and resistance - Ainu movements in modern Japan, Richard Siddle my heritage of pride and struggle, Kyoko Kitahara maintaining culture and language - Koreans in Osaka, John C. Maher and Yumiko Kawanishi Ikuno-ku, Osaka - centre of hope and struggle, Yong Yo Yi the confidence to live! experiencing the Buraku literation movement, Ryuichi Kariya. Part 4 Other voices - families, signs and differences: woman as outsider - sexuality, society and the familial mind, Aya Nishizono-Maher et al the right to speak - language maintenance in Japan, Kuyoko Yashiro a non-Japanese Japanese - on being a returnee, Akiko Kowatari the deaf and their language - progress towards equality, Noboyuki Honna. Part 5 Afterword: the politics of diversity in the nation-state, Gaynor Macdonald.