Yuko Kawai
Biographic Data
| ID | 3959788 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Yuko Kawai |
| GIVEN NAMES | Yuko |
| FAMILY NAME | Kawai |
| SIGNATURE | KAWAI Y |
| AFFILIATIONS | Tokai University |
| ORCID | 0009-0005-2113-4942 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 164 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 9 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1998 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Studying Race and Racism in South Korean and Japanese Contexts
This commentary introduces cases in Japan similar to those depicted in the five contributions to this forum and discusses the necessity of attending to the local concept of race to study race and racism in South Korea and Japan. The five articles evoke two cases that occurred in Japan. Like South Korea, Japan is well known for its strong and persistent myth of homogeneity despite the presence of diverse ethnic/racial (or racialized) minority grou…
Cultural dimensions
Transnational Critique of Japaneseness
In this book, Yuko Kawai departs from the common conception of Japan as an ethnically homogenous nation. A Transnational Critique of Japaneseness: Cultural Nationalism, Racism, and Multiculturalism in Japan investigates the construction of Japaneseness from a transnational perspective, examining ways to make Japanese nationhood more inclusive. Kawai analyzes a variety of communicational practices during the first two decades of the twenty-first c…
Japanese as Both a “Race” and a “Non-Race”
Deracialised Race, Obscured Racism
This paper examines the interrelationships among Japaneseness, the Western and Japanese concepts of race, and the obfuscation of racism in contemporary Japanese society. The concept of race, which was conceived in the West in the modern era, has influenced the Japanese concepts of race, jinshu and minzoku. These two concepts played a key role in constructing modern Japan’s identity by distinguishing it from its significant discursive Others: Asia…
Neoliberalism, Nationalism, and Intercultural Communication
This paper attempts to draw implications of neoliberalism for intercultural communication by critically analyzing a Japanese neoliberal nationalism discourse. In January 2000, a governmental report proposed adopting English as an official language of Japan. Utilizing the notion of representation as a methodological lens for the analysis, this essay first examines how Japanese culture and communication, which have played key roles in asserting Jap…
Japanese Nationalism and the global Spread of English
Globalisation has accelerated the spread of English internationally, challenged nationalisms and put nation states in a dilemma in which they have to promote English, a foreign language, in addition to their national languages. Focusing on the proposal in January 2000 to establish English as an official language of Japan, this study attempts to understand and critique how English is represented in relation to Japanese nationalism in government an…
Stereotyping Asian Americans
The model minority stereotype is viewed as the most influential and pervasive stereotype for Asian Americans today. In this article, the author argues that this seemingly positive stereotype, the model minority, is inseparable from the yellow peril, a negative stereotype, when Asian Americans are stereotypically represented in mainstream media texts. The model minority–yellow peril dialectic is explicated with the concepts of racial triangulation…
Visual evoked potentials to the geometric forms in the randomized presentation
Two outlined geometric figures, an equilateral triangle and a circle, of equal contour length, were randomly presented at a fixed position in the lower or upper part of the visual field (LVF and UVF). Transient visual evoked potentials (VEPs) were recorded monopolarly from the inion (I), 5, 10, 15 cm above it (I5, I10, I15) and Fz, for 12 subjects. Grand‐averaged VEPs were computed. A negative (N) wave (averaged peak latency 155 ms) was identifie…
Stereotyping Asian Americans
The model minority stereotype is viewed as the most influential and pervasive stereotype for Asian Americans today. In this article, the author argues that this seemingly positive stereotype, the model minority, is inseparable from the yellow peril, a negative stereotype, when Asian Americans are stereotypically represented in mainstream media texts. The model minority–yellow peril dialectic is explicated with the concepts of racial triangulation…
Deracialised Race, Obscured Racism
This paper examines the interrelationships among Japaneseness, the Western and Japanese concepts of race, and the obfuscation of racism in contemporary Japanese society. The concept of race, which was conceived in the West in the modern era, has influenced the Japanese concepts of race, jinshu and minzoku. These two concepts played a key role in constructing modern Japan’s identity by distinguishing it from its significant discursive Others: Asia…
Japanese Nationalism and the global Spread of English
Globalisation has accelerated the spread of English internationally, challenged nationalisms and put nation states in a dilemma in which they have to promote English, a foreign language, in addition to their national languages. Focusing on the proposal in January 2000 to establish English as an official language of Japan, this study attempts to understand and critique how English is represented in relation to Japanese nationalism in government an…
Neoliberalism, Nationalism, and Intercultural Communication
This paper attempts to draw implications of neoliberalism for intercultural communication by critically analyzing a Japanese neoliberal nationalism discourse. In January 2000, a governmental report proposed adopting English as an official language of Japan. Utilizing the notion of representation as a methodological lens for the analysis, this essay first examines how Japanese culture and communication, which have played key roles in asserting Jap…
Visual evoked potentials to the geometric forms in the randomized presentation
Two outlined geometric figures, an equilateral triangle and a circle, of equal contour length, were randomly presented at a fixed position in the lower or upper part of the visual field (LVF and UVF). Transient visual evoked potentials (VEPs) were recorded monopolarly from the inion (I), 5, 10, 15 cm above it (I5, I10, I15) and Fz, for 12 subjects. Grand‐averaged VEPs were computed. A negative (N) wave (averaged peak latency 155 ms) was identifie…
Stereotyping Asian Americans
The model minority stereotype is viewed as the most influential and pervasive stereotype for Asian Americans today. In this article, the author argues that this seemingly positive stereotype, the model minority, is inseparable from the yellow peril, a negative stereotype, when Asian Americans are stereotypically represented in mainstream media texts. The model minority–yellow peril dialectic is explicated with the concepts of racial triangulation…
Japanese Nationalism and the global Spread of English
Globalisation has accelerated the spread of English internationally, challenged nationalisms and put nation states in a dilemma in which they have to promote English, a foreign language, in addition to their national languages. Focusing on the proposal in January 2000 to establish English as an official language of Japan, this study attempts to understand and critique how English is represented in relation to Japanese nationalism in government an…
Neoliberalism, Nationalism, and Intercultural Communication
This paper attempts to draw implications of neoliberalism for intercultural communication by critically analyzing a Japanese neoliberal nationalism discourse. In January 2000, a governmental report proposed adopting English as an official language of Japan. Utilizing the notion of representation as a methodological lens for the analysis, this essay first examines how Japanese culture and communication, which have played key roles in asserting Jap…
Japanese as Both a “Race” and a “Non-Race”
Deracialised Race, Obscured Racism
This paper examines the interrelationships among Japaneseness, the Western and Japanese concepts of race, and the obfuscation of racism in contemporary Japanese society. The concept of race, which was conceived in the West in the modern era, has influenced the Japanese concepts of race, jinshu and minzoku. These two concepts played a key role in constructing modern Japan’s identity by distinguishing it from its significant discursive Others: Asia…
Transnational Critique of Japaneseness
In this book, Yuko Kawai departs from the common conception of Japan as an ethnically homogenous nation. A Transnational Critique of Japaneseness: Cultural Nationalism, Racism, and Multiculturalism in Japan investigates the construction of Japaneseness from a transnational perspective, examining ways to make Japanese nationhood more inclusive. Kawai analyzes a variety of communicational practices during the first two decades of the twenty-first c…
Cultural dimensions
Studying Race and Racism in South Korean and Japanese Contexts
This commentary introduces cases in Japan similar to those depicted in the five contributions to this forum and discusses the necessity of attending to the local concept of race to study race and racism in South Korea and Japan. The five articles evoke two cases that occurred in Japan. Like South Korea, Japan is well known for its strong and persistent myth of homogeneity despite the presence of diverse ethnic/racial (or racialized) minority grou…
Sociology (8 works) · Gender Studies (6 works) · Political science (5 works) · Gender Studies (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Politics (4 works) · Japanese History and Culture (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Psychology (3 works) · Aesthetics (2 works)