Multicultural Japan: Palaeolithic to Postmodern Book

	List of Figures and Tables	v
	List of Contributors	vi
	Abbreviations	viii
	Introduction	1
Part 1	Archaeology and Identity
1.	The Japanese as an Asia-Pacific Population	19
2.	North Kyushu Creole: a language-contact model for the origins of Japanese	31
3.	Beyond Ethnicity and Emergence in Japanese Archaeology	46
4.	Archaeology and Japanese Identity	60
Part 2	Centre and Periphery
5.	A Descent into the Past: the frontier in the construction of Japanese history	81
6.	The Place of Okinawa in Japanese Historial Identity	95
7.	Ainu Moshir and Yaponesia: Ainu and Okinawan identities in contemporary Japan	117
Part 3	Contact with the Outside
8.	Some Reflections on Identity Formation in East Asia in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries	135
9.	Siam and Japan in Pre-Modern Times: a note on mutual images	153
10.	Indonesia under the 'Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere'	160
11.	Japanese Army Internment Policies for Enemy Civilians during the Asia-Pacific War	174
Part 4	The Japanese Family
12.	Modern Patriarchy and the Formation of the Japanese Nation State	213
13.	The Modern Japanese Family System: unique or universal?	224
Part 5	Culture and Ideology
14.	Emperor, Race, and Commoners	235
15.	Two Interpretations of Japanese Culture	245
16.	Kokusaika: impediments in Japan's deep structure	265
	Afterword: Diversity and Identity in the Twenty-First Century	287
	Index	293