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U.S. American Concepts of Race and Ethnic Relations in the Japanese Context [5]
U.S. American concepts and perspectives of race and ethnic relations are often employed for the analysis of the Japanese context.[6]In its broadest definition of the comparative method, this type of study still constitutes a cross-national comparison (e.g., Frederickson 1995, Stone and Dennis 2003). According to their most important explanatory factors, the compound of the literature is broken down into three defined but overlapping categories: (1) social configurations of ethnic minority groups; (2) ideological interpretations of the Japanese; and (3) features of social institutions and structures in terms of assimilation practice.