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Migrants, Subjects, Citizens: Comparative Perspectives on Nationality in the Prewar Japanese Empire

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Tessa Morris-Suzuki
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Former Prime Minister Mori Yoshiro seems an unlikely champion of a multicultural Japan. His brief term of office is, after all, perhaps best remembered for the furore he evoked by a speech in which he described Japan as a “Divine Nation headed by the Emperor”. This echo of prewar nationalism stirred fears at home and abroad that senior Japanese politicians still subscribed to Shinto myths of a unique and racially superior Japan. Yet Mori today is an active participant in the ruling Liberal Democratic Party's “Diet Members’ League for Promoting Exchanges of Foreign Human Resources” (Gaikoku Jinzai Koryu Suishin Giin Renmei), an awkwardly-named body whose mission is to promote mass immigration by making Japan a magnet for skilled workers from around the world. (Akashi and Ogawa 2008, 69)

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The Contradictions of Empire
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Asia-Pacific Journal , Volume 12 , Special Issue S13: Course Reader No. 13. White Peril/Yellow Peril and Japan's Pan-Asian Visions, 1850-1930 , January 2014 , pp. 171 - 196
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