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Dr. Eika Tai

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Professor

Publications

2011  On Neglecting Decolonization (Datsu-shokuminchika no hochi). The Journal of Human Rights (11): 5-22.

2010  Local and Global Efforts for Human Rights Education: A Case from the Osaka Human Rights Museum. The International Journal of Human Rights 14(5): 771-788. 

2009  Japanese Immigration Policy at a Turning Point. Asian and Pacific Migration Journal 18(3): 315-344.

2009  Between Assimilation and Transnationalism: the Debate on Nationality Acquisition among Koreans in Japan. Social Identities 15(5): 609-629.

2008  Multiethnic Japan and Nihonjin: Looking through Two Exhibitions in 2004 Osaka. In Japan’s Minorities: The Illusion of Homogeneity, the second edition, ed. Michael Weiner, 139-161. New York: Routledge.

2008  Festivals as Ritual Assertions for Sustaining Diaspora Communities: Comparing Cases in the USA and Japan. Obsidian 9(1): 107-123.

2007  Multicultural Education. The Asia-Pacific E-Journal: Japan Focus.

2007  Korean Ethnic Education in Japanese Public Schools. Asian Ethnicity 8(1): 5-23. 

2006  Korean Activism and Ethnicity in the Changing Ethnic Landscape of Urban Japan. Asian Studies Review 30: 41-58. 

2006  Fesutibaru to tabunka kyôsei (Festivals and Multicultural Co-living). In Toshi-kûkan o sozô suru (Creating an urban space), eds. N. Hata and H. Nakamaki, 134-157. Tokyo: Nihon keizai hyôronsha.

2005  Redefining Japan as Multiethnic: An Exhibition at the National Museum of Ethnology in Spring 2004. Museum Anthropology 28(2): 43-62.   

2005  “Multicultural Co-living” and “Japaneseness”: Rethinking “Culture” and “ Co-living.” Intercultural/Transcultural Education (Bulletin of Intercultural Education Society of Japan) 20: 27-41.

2005  Wareware Nihonjin, junsui-na Nihonjin, soshite uchi-naru ekkyô (We Japanese, Pure Japanese, and Internal Border Crossing). The Journal of Human Rights 5: 55-69.

2004  “Korean Japanese”: A New Identity Option for Resident Koreans in Japan. Critical Asian Studies 36(3): 355-382.

 

Education

  • Ph.D. in Anthropology from University of California at Berkeley, 1993