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Solid review for book “Embedded Racism” by the Social Science Japan Journal

Adjunct Faculty Debito Arudou portrait. Man wearing rectangle glasses with gray and black beard and white coat and light blue shirt adorned with kukui, ti leaf and purple orchid leis.
Book cover for "Embedded Racism: Japan's Viable Minorities and Racial Discrimination" and "Debito Arudou" in white text. Middle has stone wall with red circle in the middle resembling Japanese flag.

Adjunct Faculty Debito Arudou’s book “Embedded Racism:  Japan’s Visible Minorities and Racial Discrimination” (Lexington Books / Rowman & Littlefield 2015) was recently reviewed by the Social Science Japan Journal (SSJJ).  

The reviewer concluded:

“In an anti-globalist era of Trump and ‘Brexit’ there will be many who argue that Japan is right to severely restrict immigration and preserve as much as possible that is unique about its national character. If those who do not ‘look Japanese’ have to suffer some discrimination, then that is just the price that has to be paid. There are also many who believe that the best antidote to racism is to have a nation state where as few people as possible look out of place. Arudou’s reply to this point of view, which acts simultaneously as a challenge to Japan’s leaders, is that if this national narrative is allowed to prevail, it will not only condemn Japan’s aging population to an ever-worsening demographic crisis, it will also have a ‘suffocating and self-strangulating’ effect on society (p. 303).

“There are important academic contributions to the study of racism in Japan in this book, but it is as a must-read text on the crisis facing the shrinking Japanese population and its leaders that it really leaves its mark. Embedded Racism is highly recommended reading to anyone—whether they self-identify as Japanese or foreign or both—who is interested in Japan’s future.”

Here is the entire review.

“Embedded Racism” is available at Hamilton Library and the Richardson Law Library.

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