Rethinking Race and Racism in and from Japan

Iwabuchi, Kōichi; Takezawa, Yasuko

doi:10.1080/10371397.2015.1044153

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“…In this study, we focus on the Korean among minorities or outgroups as targets of racial/ ethnic prejudice. It is well documented that Zainichi Koreans are one of the main targets of serious discrimination in Japanese society [36,[58][59][60][61]. Although Zainichi Koreans account for a small percentage of the Japanese population (0.4%) and the media coverage about them was relatively rare, hate speech against them has significantly increased in the last two decades.…”

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Three clusters of content-audience associations in expression of racial prejudice while consuming online television news

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It is well investigated that the expression of racial prejudice is often induced by news coverage on the internet, and the exposure to media contributes to the cultivation of long-term prejudice. However, there is a lack of information regarding the immediate effects of news delivered through television or television-like media on the expression of racial prejudice. This study provides a framework for understanding such effects by focusing on content-audience associations using the logs of an “online television” service, which provides television-like content and user experiences. With these logs, we found an association between the news-watching and comment-posting behaviors. Consequently, logs relevant to two distinct forms of racism, modern and old-fashioned racism, were extracted. Using mathematical modeling, which considers the different levels of program inducements to racist expression, personal inclinations of audiences to racism, and certainty of prediction of audience behaviors, we found three associative patterns between the news programs and audiences. The relevance of the topics covered to the basic beliefs of each form of racism was characterized into three clusters: expression as a reaction to news that is directly relevant to the basic beliefs of racism with weak inducements by non-bigots, minority abuse by distorting the meanings of news content indirectly relevant to the beliefs but with strong inducements by audiences with a strong bias, and racial toxic opinions independent of the news content by clear bigots. Our findings provide implications for inhibiting the expression of online prejudice based on the characteristics of these patterns.

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“…Koreans, as an ethnic group, irrespective of whether they live in Japan, are a target of prejudice in Japan [62]. The antipathy toward Koreans by the Japanese can be partly attributed to extreme historical and territorial issues between the two Korean states and Japan [36,58,61,62].…”

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“…According to Koichi Iwabucji and Yasuko Takezawa, the feeling of racism had been pointed towards certain ethnic minorities, and there were also some social problems related to racism caused by the tension between Japan and China South Korea and North Korea for some historical and territorial problems [5]. The article by Jasmine Mitchell argued that the transformation of Japan to democratic countries and the U.S occupation forces in Japan after the surrender of Japan in 1945 had a negative effect on the African American-Japanese relationship [6].…”

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Racial Issues of the Ainu in Japan

Zhu¹,

Tan²

2021

Advances in Social Science, Education and Humanities Research

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The Ainu who lived in Japan had been discriminated against for hundreds of years by the Japanese. Compared with race in the United States, the ethnic problems faced by the Ainu people are special. It is argued that the essence of racial issues should be explored from historical, cultural, economic, political elements of different human populations rather than the physical features. This paper focuses on the cultural, economic, and social aspects of racial issues in the United States and Japan.

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“…Her activity was intended to convey the seriousness of racial issues to a broad audience, including the Japanese public (Deflem 2022a;Ramsay 2020). Osaka's racial advocacy targeting the Japanese can be a suitable case to examine the relationship between source evaluation and public issue involvement from the following three perspectives: (1) the Japanese public is generally regarded as insensitive to and unfamiliar with racial issues owing to their ethnically homogeneous society (Iwabuchi and Takezawa 2015), (2) Osaka's advocacy is an unprecedented athlete's racial advocacy in Japan, and (3) Osaka has received both praise and criticism for her advocacy. Thus, this study centers on Osaka as the research focus in Japan and investigates the function of public evaluation in her advocacy.…”

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Examining the Role of Source Evaluation in Athlete Advocacy: How Can Advocate Athletes Inspire Public Involvement in Racial Issues?

2022

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Athlete advocacy is recognized as an important method of persuading the public on social issues, and it demonstrates the role of athletes in achieving racial justice. However, how athlete advocacy can gain the persuasiveness to encourage public involvement remains unclear. This study investigates how the evaluation of an advocate athlete functions to encourage public issue involvement, focusing on Naomi Osaka’s racial advocacy. In particular, driven by balance theory and attribution theory, this study examines the effects of five sociopsychological factors on public involvement in racial issues: perceived credibility, hypocrisy, cause fit, effort expended, and role model status of advocate athletes. Data were collected from a cross-sectional online survey of 855 Japanese adults who were aware of Osaka’s advocacy. The findings highlight that public involvement in racial issues is significantly associated with the evaluations of the athlete’s credibility and hypocrisy. These evaluations are further influenced by perceptions of the athlete’s cause fit and role model status. This study enriches the literature on the management of sports for social change by demonstrating the importance of source evaluation in athlete advocacy in achieving advocacy outcomes. Our evidence implies that athletes looking to promote racial justice issues should effectively be seen as credible, knowledgeable, and non-hypocritical in their issue advocacy.

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Rethinking Race and Racism in and from Japan

Cited by 29 publications

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Three clusters of content-audience associations in expression of racial prejudice while consuming online television news

Three clusters of content-audience associations in expression of racial prejudice while consuming online television news

Racial Issues of the Ainu in Japan

Examining the Role of Source Evaluation in Athlete Advocacy: How Can Advocate Athletes Inspire Public Involvement in Racial Issues?

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