Half Japanese: Japanese Children of Mixed Ethnic and Cultural Heritage

This book is about a minority group in Japan that blurs the line between ‘insider’ and ‘outsider’ in Japanese society as it is about the children of international marriage between ‘mainstream’ Japanese and non-Asian foreigners. These Japanese children of mixed ethnic and cultural heritage are referred to as "hafu" in Japan as in the English word ‘half’. Due to the foreign parent’s physical appearance, the children also have a different phenotype than the stereotypical ‘mainstream’ Japanese....