Borderline Japan

Foreigners and Frontier Controls in the Postwar Era

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Tessa Morris-Suzuki

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Hardback

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This book offers a radical reinterpretation of postwar Japan's policies towards immigrants and foreign residents. Drawing on a wealth of historical material, Tessa Morris-Suzuki shows how the Cold War played a decisive role in shaping Japan's migration controls. She explores the little-known world of the thousands of Korean 'boat people' who entered Japan in the immediate postwar period, focuses attention on the US military service people and their families and employees, and also takes readers behind the walls of Japan's notorious Omura migrant detention centre, and into the lives of Koreans who opted to leave Japan in search of a better future in communist North Korea. This book offers a fascinating contrast to traditional images of postwar Japan and sheds light on the origins and the dilemmas of migration policy in twenty-first century Japan.

Author Biography:

Tessa Morris-Suzuki is Professor of Japanese History at the Australian National University. She is a Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities and a former president of the Asian Studies Association of Australia. Her research covers issues of historical conflict and reconciliation in Northeast Asia and her work has been translated into Japanese, Korean, Chinese, Spanish and Dutch. Her previous publications include The Technological Transformation of Japan (1994), Reinventing Japan: Time, Space, Nation (1998) and Exodus to North Korea: Shadows from Japan's Cold War (2007).

Release date Australia

April 8th, 2010

Author

Tessa Morris-Suzuki

Audience

Tertiary Education (US: College)

Pages

286

Dimensions

160x235x20

ISBN-13

9780521864602

Product ID

4180509

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