In this study, the existing policy and political-historical perspectives on mixed-race children who were recognized as a product of the Cold War system and created an image as a legacy of wealth were avoided, and a social and cultural-historical persp ...
In this study, the existing policy and political-historical perspectives on mixed-race children who were recognized as a product of the Cold War system and created an image as a legacy of wealth were avoided, and a social and cultural-historical perspective was maintained. This is a critical examination of the identity of the Japanese, who have gradually become racialized, focusing on the process of how the government policy that differentiates children of mixed race has actually changed the lives of the general public. In addition, by examining how the mark of mixed race formed at that time has intervened in the progress of the multicultural society and continues to the present, it is to experience the limitations of the view of race in the epistemological dimension of the public in the era of de-racialization through modern Japanese society.
The mixed-race representations which is disseminated in Japanese society for 20 years from the 1952 ‘Mixed-Race Controversy’ to the 1970s, when the ‘Half Discourse’ appeared after the ‘Mixed-Race Boom’ in the 1960s, have instilled in the public a fixed perception of mixed-race children. Especially from the latter half of the 1960s, when the theories about the Japanese(Nihonjinron) became very popular, a new meaning was given to the Japanese. At the same time that racialization as a single ethnic group was strengthened, mixed-race children were externalized. This paper grasped such a trend as the ‘postwar origin’ of racism in contemporary Japanese, and examined its specific characteristics through various popular cultures. As a result, this paper was able to focus on the public sympathy acting on the structure in which mixed-race children were reborn with the new concept of half in the 1970s. The memory of the occupation, which is a scar of the past, was deeply involved in the symbolic system of mixed-race children. Like the reconstruction and economic growth of Japanese society and the epidemic of Japanese theory, the restoration of sociocultural self-confidence was dominated by changes in the representation of mixed-race children. Through these originating issues of Japanese racism, this paper attempts to refute the argument that racist discrimination and prejudice in contemporary Japan just follows Western racism.
Around 1980, international marriages between Asian women and Japanese men increased, and as globalization was promoted, international marriages also diversified. Accordingly, as the expressions ‘international child’ or ‘double’ refer to children of mixed race, the representation system also diversifies. Therefore, the research goal of the second year was to examine the characteristics of the representation of mixed races and hybrids recognized by the public at the time from the 1980s to the 2000s. As a result, the empowerment of biological and sociological racism and the role of mass media could be considered critically. In other words, racism, which functioned as pseudoscience, was visually realized through eugenics while organically combined with body discourse. It can be said that this is common not only to Japan but also to the world, but Japan has a history of accepting eugenics especially during the war period. Therefore, it was possible to think about the need to question the stereotype of recognizing mixed-race children as a by-product of war. Based on these contents, he is writing a thesis on 'international child' and 'double' discourse and racism.