In this book, the author analyzes Japanese youth and foreign migrants in Japan under a unifying theoretical framework, i.e., a conflict-labeling perspective, which relates inequality to deviance. The opening chapter provides the outline and aims of the book. Characterizing those two groups as “powerless and yet perceived to be a major threat to the status quo” (p. 1), the author attempts to demonstrate how they are excluded from society and how their deviant behavior is generated and reproduced through various social mechanisms. He is particularly interested in depicting how the images of the two groups are shaped by governmental and corporate control over the mass media. In describing the two groups in these ways, he wants to shed light on how “conflict is an integral and dynamic feature of Japanese society” and thereby to challenge the nihonjinron (discourse of Japanese culture and people) model (p. 1). The author is particularly...
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