Eika Tai
Biographic Data
| ID | 133873 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Eika Tai |
| GIVEN NAMES | Eika |
| FAMILY NAME | Tai |
| SIGNATURE | TAI E |
| AFFILIATIONS | North Carolina State University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 40 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1996 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Museum Activism Against Military Sexual Slavery
There has been political tension in East Asia over Japan's avoidance of facing its history of imperial expansion and wartime atrocities. Peace museums have been battlefields for the debate on how to remember the war. One of the fiercest battles has been fought at the Women's Active Museum on War and Peace, known as theWAM, which focuses on the issue of "military comfort women," those forced to offer sexual service to Japanese soldiers during the …
Intermarriage and imperial subject formation in colonial Taiwan: Shōji Sōichi's Chin-fujin
In this article, I analyze the political significance of Shōji Sōichi's Chin-fujin (The wife of Mr. Chen), an intricate story of an interracial family in colonial Taiwan struggling to come to terms with their cultural identifications against the backdrop of political upheavals in the late 1910s to the mid-1930s. The novel was well received in wartime Japan and received a 1943 Greater East Asia Literary Prize. Contemporary critics praised it for d…
The Discourse of Intermarriage in Colonial Taiwan
This article examines how Japanese policymakers and intellectuals approached national classification in colonial Taiwan by looking into the policy and discourse of intermarriage between Japanese and Han Taiwanese. Despite its rarity in practice, intermarriage as an idea frequently appeared in political debates on the integration of Taiwan into the Japanese empire. Narratives on intermarriage shed light on how ethno-national consciousness was form…
Local and global efforts for human rights education: A case from the Osaka Human Rights Museum
Created by those involved in the liberation movement of Buraku people (members of a formerly outcaste group), the Osaka Human Rights Museum has been the most established human rights museum in Japan. I examine education at the museum as a product of the interaction between global and local efforts to promote human rights education, looking into how the curators have adopted and appropriated the universal concept of human rights according to chang…
Japanese Immigration Policy at a Turning Point
This article looks into how the Japanese government has recently been changing policies and discourses on immigration. I begin by sketching the historical background of immigration policy. Then, I discuss policies, proposals and reports made in the 2000s, paying close attention to documents produced after 2005. Since then, the Japanese government, confronting the domestic problem of demographic change and the global competition for human resource…
Between assimilation and transnationalism: The debate on nationality acquisition among Koreans in Japan
Political identifications among postcolonial Koreans in Japan have been characterized by a tension between assimilative and transnational orientations. The tension has been reshaped in the course of a recent debate on nationality acquisition, which Korean activists and commentators started in response to Japanese policymakers’ move in the 2001 National Diet to simplify the naturalization process for postcolonial Koreans. At the heart of the debat…
Korean ethnic education in Japanese public schools
Korean ethnic education in Japanese public schools has played an important role in the persistence of Korean ethnicity in Japan. In Osaka Prefecture, it began as an educational movement at the end of the 1960s. Japanese and Korean activists who led the movement had different political commitments and developed two approaches. Those interested in Korean homeland politics stressed the importance of teaching the ethnic culture of the homeland and tr…
Multicultural Education in Japan
Article SummaryKorean ethnic education in Japanese public schools, which started in the 1960s, is a form of multicultural education that provides useful ideas for multiculturalist teachers dealing with children of newcomer foreigners. In Osaka, Japanese and Korean activists with different political agendas developed two distinctive approaches. Those interested in the homeland politics of the two Koreas tried to develop an ethno-national identity …
Korean activism and ethnicity in the changing ethnic landscape of urban Japan
The True Name Movement: Japanese Teachers' Struggle for Empowering Korean Children
Personal naming has been central to the state's control of Koreans in Japan, but it has also been an important political strategy for Korean activists to challenge Japanese authorities. In the 1970s, Japanese teachers in public schools formed a true name movement, in which they encouraged Korean students to discard their false (Japanese) names, declare their true (Korean) names and true identities, and fight against ethnic discrimination. When th…
"Redefining Japan as "Multiethnic: An Exhibition at the National Museum of Ethnology in Spring 2004
“Korean Japanese”: A new identity option for resident Koreans in Japan
Until recently, resident Koreans in Japan, former colonial subjects and their offspring, have had only two options for staying in Japan: naturalization, which required assimilation and the adoption of a Japanese identification, or zainichi status, which meant remaining Korean nationals and keeping their own ethnic identity. Choosing the zainichi option was a way for resident Koreans to express their resistance to Japan's naturalization system, wh…
Rethinking Culture, National Culture, and Japanese Culture
Eika Tai, Rethinking Culture, National Culture, and Japanese Culture, Japanese Language and Literature, Vol. 37, No. 1, Special Issue: Sociocultural Issues in Teaching Japanese: Critical Approaches (Apr., 2003), pp. 1-26
Kokugo and Colonial Education in Taiwan
Research Article| May 01 1999 Kokugo and Colonial Education in Taiwan Eika Tai Eika Tai Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google positions (1999) 7 (2): 503–540. https://doi.org/10.1215/10679847-7-2-503 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Eika Tai; Kokugo and Colonial Education in Taiwan. positions 1 May 1999; 7 (2): 503–540. doi: https://doi.org/10.1215/10679847-7-2-…
Passing as a Native in Social Interaction: Taiwanese in a Changing Japanese Society
(1996). Passing as a Native in Social Interaction: Taiwanese in a Changing Japanese Society. Research on Language and Social Interaction: Vol. 29, No. 2, pp. 97-123
Kokugo and Colonial Education in Taiwan
Research Article| May 01 1999 Kokugo and Colonial Education in Taiwan Eika Tai Eika Tai Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google positions (1999) 7 (2): 503–540. https://doi.org/10.1215/10679847-7-2-503 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Eika Tai; Kokugo and Colonial Education in Taiwan. positions 1 May 1999; 7 (2): 503–540. doi: https://doi.org/10.1215/10679847-7-2-…
Museum Activism Against Military Sexual Slavery
There has been political tension in East Asia over Japan's avoidance of facing its history of imperial expansion and wartime atrocities. Peace museums have been battlefields for the debate on how to remember the war. One of the fiercest battles has been fought at the Women's Active Museum on War and Peace, known as theWAM, which focuses on the issue of "military comfort women," those forced to offer sexual service to Japanese soldiers during the …
Japanese Immigration Policy at a Turning Point
This article looks into how the Japanese government has recently been changing policies and discourses on immigration. I begin by sketching the historical background of immigration policy. Then, I discuss policies, proposals and reports made in the 2000s, paying close attention to documents produced after 2005. Since then, the Japanese government, confronting the domestic problem of demographic change and the global competition for human resource…
Korean ethnic education in Japanese public schools
Korean ethnic education in Japanese public schools has played an important role in the persistence of Korean ethnicity in Japan. In Osaka Prefecture, it began as an educational movement at the end of the 1960s. Japanese and Korean activists who led the movement had different political commitments and developed two approaches. Those interested in Korean homeland politics stressed the importance of teaching the ethnic culture of the homeland and tr…
Local and global efforts for human rights education: A case from the Osaka Human Rights Museum
Created by those involved in the liberation movement of Buraku people (members of a formerly outcaste group), the Osaka Human Rights Museum has been the most established human rights museum in Japan. I examine education at the museum as a product of the interaction between global and local efforts to promote human rights education, looking into how the curators have adopted and appropriated the universal concept of human rights according to chang…
Between assimilation and transnationalism: The debate on nationality acquisition among Koreans in Japan
Political identifications among postcolonial Koreans in Japan have been characterized by a tension between assimilative and transnational orientations. The tension has been reshaped in the course of a recent debate on nationality acquisition, which Korean activists and commentators started in response to Japanese policymakers’ move in the 2001 National Diet to simplify the naturalization process for postcolonial Koreans. At the heart of the debat…
Korean activism and ethnicity in the changing ethnic landscape of urban Japan
Passing as a Native in Social Interaction: Taiwanese in a Changing Japanese Society
(1996). Passing as a Native in Social Interaction: Taiwanese in a Changing Japanese Society. Research on Language and Social Interaction: Vol. 29, No. 2, pp. 97-123
The True Name Movement: Japanese Teachers' Struggle for Empowering Korean Children
Personal naming has been central to the state's control of Koreans in Japan, but it has also been an important political strategy for Korean activists to challenge Japanese authorities. In the 1970s, Japanese teachers in public schools formed a true name movement, in which they encouraged Korean students to discard their false (Japanese) names, declare their true (Korean) names and true identities, and fight against ethnic discrimination. When th…
"Redefining Japan as "Multiethnic: An Exhibition at the National Museum of Ethnology in Spring 2004
Passing as a Native in Social Interaction: Taiwanese in a Changing Japanese Society
(1996). Passing as a Native in Social Interaction: Taiwanese in a Changing Japanese Society. Research on Language and Social Interaction: Vol. 29, No. 2, pp. 97-123
Kokugo and Colonial Education in Taiwan
Research Article| May 01 1999 Kokugo and Colonial Education in Taiwan Eika Tai Eika Tai Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google positions (1999) 7 (2): 503–540. https://doi.org/10.1215/10679847-7-2-503 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Eika Tai; Kokugo and Colonial Education in Taiwan. positions 1 May 1999; 7 (2): 503–540. doi: https://doi.org/10.1215/10679847-7-2-…
Rethinking Culture, National Culture, and Japanese Culture
Eika Tai, Rethinking Culture, National Culture, and Japanese Culture, Japanese Language and Literature, Vol. 37, No. 1, Special Issue: Sociocultural Issues in Teaching Japanese: Critical Approaches (Apr., 2003), pp. 1-26
“Korean Japanese”: A new identity option for resident Koreans in Japan
Until recently, resident Koreans in Japan, former colonial subjects and their offspring, have had only two options for staying in Japan: naturalization, which required assimilation and the adoption of a Japanese identification, or zainichi status, which meant remaining Korean nationals and keeping their own ethnic identity. Choosing the zainichi option was a way for resident Koreans to express their resistance to Japan's naturalization system, wh…
"Redefining Japan as "Multiethnic: An Exhibition at the National Museum of Ethnology in Spring 2004
Korean activism and ethnicity in the changing ethnic landscape of urban Japan
The True Name Movement: Japanese Teachers' Struggle for Empowering Korean Children
Personal naming has been central to the state's control of Koreans in Japan, but it has also been an important political strategy for Korean activists to challenge Japanese authorities. In the 1970s, Japanese teachers in public schools formed a true name movement, in which they encouraged Korean students to discard their false (Japanese) names, declare their true (Korean) names and true identities, and fight against ethnic discrimination. When th…
Korean ethnic education in Japanese public schools
Korean ethnic education in Japanese public schools has played an important role in the persistence of Korean ethnicity in Japan. In Osaka Prefecture, it began as an educational movement at the end of the 1960s. Japanese and Korean activists who led the movement had different political commitments and developed two approaches. Those interested in Korean homeland politics stressed the importance of teaching the ethnic culture of the homeland and tr…
Multicultural Education in Japan
Article SummaryKorean ethnic education in Japanese public schools, which started in the 1960s, is a form of multicultural education that provides useful ideas for multiculturalist teachers dealing with children of newcomer foreigners. In Osaka, Japanese and Korean activists with different political agendas developed two distinctive approaches. Those interested in the homeland politics of the two Koreas tried to develop an ethno-national identity …
Japanese Immigration Policy at a Turning Point
This article looks into how the Japanese government has recently been changing policies and discourses on immigration. I begin by sketching the historical background of immigration policy. Then, I discuss policies, proposals and reports made in the 2000s, paying close attention to documents produced after 2005. Since then, the Japanese government, confronting the domestic problem of demographic change and the global competition for human resource…
Between assimilation and transnationalism: The debate on nationality acquisition among Koreans in Japan
Political identifications among postcolonial Koreans in Japan have been characterized by a tension between assimilative and transnational orientations. The tension has been reshaped in the course of a recent debate on nationality acquisition, which Korean activists and commentators started in response to Japanese policymakers’ move in the 2001 National Diet to simplify the naturalization process for postcolonial Koreans. At the heart of the debat…
Local and global efforts for human rights education: A case from the Osaka Human Rights Museum
Created by those involved in the liberation movement of Buraku people (members of a formerly outcaste group), the Osaka Human Rights Museum has been the most established human rights museum in Japan. I examine education at the museum as a product of the interaction between global and local efforts to promote human rights education, looking into how the curators have adopted and appropriated the universal concept of human rights according to chang…
Intermarriage and imperial subject formation in colonial Taiwan: Shōji Sōichi's Chin-fujin
In this article, I analyze the political significance of Shōji Sōichi's Chin-fujin (The wife of Mr. Chen), an intricate story of an interracial family in colonial Taiwan struggling to come to terms with their cultural identifications against the backdrop of political upheavals in the late 1910s to the mid-1930s. The novel was well received in wartime Japan and received a 1943 Greater East Asia Literary Prize. Contemporary critics praised it for d…
The Discourse of Intermarriage in Colonial Taiwan
This article examines how Japanese policymakers and intellectuals approached national classification in colonial Taiwan by looking into the policy and discourse of intermarriage between Japanese and Han Taiwanese. Despite its rarity in practice, intermarriage as an idea frequently appeared in political debates on the integration of Taiwan into the Japanese empire. Narratives on intermarriage shed light on how ethno-national consciousness was form…
Museum Activism Against Military Sexual Slavery
There has been political tension in East Asia over Japan's avoidance of facing its history of imperial expansion and wartime atrocities. Peace museums have been battlefields for the debate on how to remember the war. One of the fiercest battles has been fought at the Women's Active Museum on War and Peace, known as theWAM, which focuses on the issue of "military comfort women," those forced to offer sexual service to Japanese soldiers during the …
Sociology (13 works) · Political science (10 works) · Gender Studies (9 works) · Japanese History and Culture (8 works) · Law (8 works) · Asian Culture and Media Studies (7 works) · Gender Studies (6 works) · History (6 works) · Politics (6 works) · Ethnic group (5 works)