Misrecognition, Disrecognition, Recognition: The Trajectory of Zainichi (Koreans in Japan) Identities

Speaker: John Lie, Professor, Department of Sociology and Dean of International and Area Studies, UC Berkeley JAPAN STUDIES COLLOQUIUM SERIES, Spring 2009 Organized by Hwa-Ji Shin, Visiting Assistant Professor, FSI Stanford University hwajis [at] stanford.edu (hwajis[at]stanford[dot]edu) Limited lunch will be provided. Free and open to the public. Lie will discuss the transformation in Zainichi identity in the post-World War II period. In particular, I focus on the social condition of disrecognition by larger Japanese society and the predominance of exilic, North-Korea-affiliated identification by the ethnic Korean population in Japan.