History, Representation, and Rights of Mixed Race People in Japan

2017 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 25511011
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: 文化学
• Research Institution: Konan Women's University (2015-2017); Shibaura Institute of Technology (2013-2014)
• Principal Investigator: Want Kaori (ウォント盛香織) 甲南女子大学, 文学部, 准教授 (30348908)
• Research Collaborator: Brecher William Puck ; Spickard Paul ; 新田 文輝 ; 平野 真理子 ; 安富 成良
• Project Period (FY): 2013-04-01 – 2018-03-31
• Keywords: ハーフ / 国際結婚 / ハパ / 混血児 / 雑婚 / ハーグ条約 / 多文化共生

Outline of Final Research Achievements

This research aimed at investigating the history, media representation, and rights of mixed race people, generally called haafu, in Japan. For this purpose, the researcher did multidisciplinary research such as examining various materials, and interviewing haafu people. As a result, the researcher published seven refereeed papers on academic journals, presented fourteen times at conferences (one of them was a symposium I held at my institution), and published eight books (one of them is a single authored book titled Hapa America: The History and Culture of Multiracial Asian Pacific Americans, a pioneer study of this research).

Free Research Field

ハパ・ハーフ研究