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The Black Pacific: Anti-colonial Struggle and Oceanic Connections

The strongest part of the book, in my view, is chapter 5, which illustrates how “Japaneseness” is enforced through legal and extralegal means. The examples of visa regimes and even exclusion from sports and other contests through educational institutions show how everyday racism leaks into larger organizational practices, often without challenge. It would be interesting to know why and how this might be changing in the past few years with, for example, two mixed-race “Miss Japan” beauty queens, chosen to represent Japan as a nation, at international beauty pageants. It would also be interesting to contrast the examples in Arudou’s book with examples of “positive” discrimination for those who don’t look Japanese in Japan and/or an analyses that focuses on the differential treatment of non-Japanese in Japan based on gender and socioeconomic status. The book is clearly written and seems to be aimed primarily at undergraduate students, as it makes an important contribution for those wishing to understand racism in Japan better, and it compiles interesting documentary legal data about the history of cases of discrimination in Japan. The book would easily also suit courses that address global conceptions of race and ethnicity and how these are changing in Japan at the both the microand macro-levels because of globalization.