Koreans in Japan are a barely known minority, not only in the West but also within Japan itself. This pioneering study analyzes these relations in the context of the particular conditions and constraints that Koreans face in Japanese society.The contributors cover a wide range of topics, including:

Introduction: on resident Koreans in Japan Sonia Ryang 1. Politics of legal status: the equation of nationality with ethnonational identity Chikako Kashiwazaki 2. On the North Korean homeland of Koreans in Japan Sonia Ryang 3. Political correctness, postcoloniality and self-representation of 'Koreanness' in Japan Koichi Iwabuchi 4. Mothers write Ikaino Melissa Wender 5. Reading against the bourgeois and national bodies: transcultural body-politics in Yu Miri's textual representation Lisa Yoneyama 6. Cultural identity in the work of Yi Yang-ji Carol Hayes 7. Korean ethnic schools in occupied Japan, 1945-52 Hiromitsu Inokuchi 8. Korean children, textbooks and educational practices in Japanese primary schools Eriko Aoki 9. Kids between nations: ethnic classes in the construction of Korean identities in Japanese public schools Jeffrey T. Hester 10. Ordinary (Korean) Japanese John Lie