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Migration Bibliography: Japan
- Source: Excerpt from Imin Kenkyūkai, comp., "Annotated Bibliography of Japanese Migration," in Akemi Kikumura-Yano, ed., Encyclopedia of Japanese Descendants in the Americas: An Illustrated History of the Nikkei (Walnut Creek, Calif.: AltaMira Press, 2002), 52-61.
Fujisaki, Yasuo [藤崎康夫]. Dekasegi Nikkei gaikokujin rōdōsha [出稼ぎ日系外国人労働者]. Tōkyō [東京]: Akashi Shoten [明石書店], 1991.
Observes that the Nikkei community was significantly affected by the dekasegi phenomenon that started in the 1980s and the revision of the restrictive immigration laws of Japan. Considers Nikkei from different countries as “affiliated races” with similar cultural traits, different from the Japanese and foreigners. Also criticizes Japan's disinterest in them.
Gaimushō Ryōji Ijūbu [外務省領事移住部]. Waga kokumin no kaigai hatten: ijū hyakunen no ayumi [わが国民の海外発展：移住百年の歩み]. Tōkyō [東京]: Gaimushō Daijin Kanbō Ryōji Ijūbu [外務省大臣官房領事移住部], 1971.
Contains various data on migration abroad, published by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to commemorate the hundredth anniversary of Japanese migration. Consists of a main volume and a reference volume. The former addresses the significance of foreign migration, history, patterns of migration and government migration organizations. The latter contains data including the number of passports issued in the pre- and postwar period, and statistics on postwar migrants and immigration laws of various countries.
Ijū Jigyōshishi Hensan Iinkai [移住事業私史編纂委員会]. Ijū jigyōshishi [移住事業私史]. N.p., 1999.
Compilation of seventy-seven people who worked at JICA and were engaged in other activities concerning the emigration to the South America.
Imin Kenkyūkai [移民研究会], ed. Nihon no imin kenkyū: dōkō to mokuroku [日本の移民研究 : 動向と目録]. Tōkyō [東京]: Nichigai Asoshiētsu [日外アソシエーツ], 1994.source
A comprehensive compilation of migration studies of diverse methodologies. Consists of three parts: (1) studies on the country of origin; (2) studies on the recipient country; and (3) international relations. Includes bibliography updated to the first half of 1992.
Imin Kenkyūkai [移民研究会], ed. Sensō to Nihonjin imin [戦争と日本人移民]. Tōkyō [東京]: Tōyō Shorin [東洋書林], 1997.
Nikkei specialists in various fields examine different aspects of how World War II affected the Japanese immigrants throughout the world in terms of their lives, social and cultural activities, and language. Also examines the impact of the war upon Japanese immigrants/Nikkei population, by observing how they dealt with the war.
Irie, Toraji [入江寅次]. Hōjin kaigai hattenshi [邦人海外発展史]. Tōkyō [東京]: Imin Mondai Kenkyūkai [移民問題研究會], 1938.
One of the most fundamental resources to study Japanese migration history. Covers all ranges of migrants, between gannen-mono (first-year people) and immigration restriction in Brazil, including immigrants not only to Hawai`i, North America, and South America, but also to Siberia, Manchuria, and the Pacific islands. Utilizes documents of the Japanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
Iyotani, Toshio, and Tōru Sugihara [伊豫谷登士翁 and 杉原達], eds. Nihon shakai to imin [日本社会と移民]. Tōkyō [東京]: Akashi Shoten [明石書店], 1996.
Examines contemporary issues of receiving foreign workers and their settlement in Japan within a wider framework of foreigners and emigration during the formation and development of a modern nation-state and reevaluates Japan as a modern state. Includes nine articles, attempting to conduct empirical research on the relations among Japan, Asia, and the U.S., and theorizes international labor migration.
Kodama, Masaaki [児玉正昭]. Nihon iminshi kenkyū josetsu [日本移民史研究序説]. Hiroshima-shi [広島市]: Keisuisha [渓水社], 1992.
Consists of three parts and twelve chapters. The first part deals with contract immigration; the second, relations between immigrants and the host society; and the third, Japanese immigrants to the mainland U.S. during the 1900s. Utilizes basic primary sources, examines relations between sending countries and international affairs from socioeconomic and historical viewpoints, and presents the push-factors that shifted from period-to-period and actual conditions.
Kokuritsu Kokkai Toshokan Senmon Shiryōbu [国立国会図書館専門資料部], ed. Imin kankei shiryō mokuroku: Kokuritsu Kokkai Toshokan Tokubetsu Shiryōshitsu-shozō [移民関係資料目録：国立国会図書館特別資料室所蔵]. Tōkyō [東京]: Kokuritsu Kokkai Toshokan [国立国会図書館], 1997.
A bibliographic collection of various data on Nikkei immigrants in Hawai`i, and Central and South America.
Nozoe, Kenji [野添憲治]. Umi o watatta kaitaku nōmin [海を渡った開拓農民]. Tōkyō [東京]: Nihon Hōsō Shuppan Kyōkai [日本放送出版協会], 1978.
Focuses on Taisho-machi in Kōchi, where a selected partial migration policy was carried out during the Great Depression of 1929 based on the national policy on Manchurian-Mongolian development. Migration to Paraguay after World War II was an attempt to resolve financial difficulties and excessive population due to migrants returning from abroad. Describes in detail the harsh lives of immigrant farmers in remote areas such as Manchuria and Paraguay, fully utilizing migration data and interviews with immigrant farmers.
Suzuki, Jōji [鈴木譲二]. Nihonjin dekasegi imin [日本人出稼ぎ移民]. Tōkyō [東京]: Heibonsha [平凡社], 1992.
Insists that Japanese immigrants were dekasegi immigrants who moved around in search of higher wages. From this perspective, an overview of Japanese immigrants in Hawai`i, Australia, and South and North Americas, from the end of the Edo era to the eve of World War II, is presented, utilizing such sources as "Japanese Diplomatic Documents." Also refers to illegal immigrants, remittance to Japan, and dekasegi immigrants after World War II.
Wakatsuki, Yasuo [若槻泰雄]. Sengo hikiage no kiroku [戦後引揚げの記録]. Tōkyō [東京]: Jiji Tsūshinsha [時事通信社], 1991.
Regards hikiage (returning home) phenomenon of the 3.5 million Japanese abroad after World War II as a unique case of migration. Observes the movement. Includes personal stories, which official documents of the Ministry of Welfare lack, and domestic and international legal matters.
Wakatsuki, Yasuo, and Jōji Suzuki [若槻泰雄 and 鈴木譲二]. Kaigai ijū seisaku shiron [海外移住政策史論]. Tōkyō [東京]: Fukumura Shuppan [福村出版], 1975.
Focuses on Japanese migration to South and Central America in the postwar period. Examines the government’s policies and the patterns of migration, motives, process of settlement, and circumstances after settlement. Analyzes relevant organizations.