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**Hidden Nikkeijin:Identity of Ethnic Japanese in the Philippines in the Post-war Period 
#center(){&bold(){Mariko Iijima}} 

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*Abstract
This paper focuses on identity formation of Japanese-Filipinos, who started to reveal themselves as people of Japanese descendants (=Nikkeijin) in the 1990s. Unlike Nikkeijin in North and South Americas, most of Japanese who left behind in the Philippines after WWII were forced to disguise their Nikkei identity in order to entrench themselves from severe anti-Japanese sentiments. However, when the Japanese immigration regulations revised in 1990, Japanese-Filipinos started to seek their roonts in Japan. 
　  One question I am examing in this paper is 'why do the Japnese-Filipinos have to establish their Japanese roots after 50 years from WWII? The main reason is an economic opportunity that they are able to work in Japan legally, and  more previledgedly than other foreign labourers. In addition to the econmic reason, I would also like to analyse this question in terms of political, historical and social perspectives.                                                                                                            In addition, this paper introduces  the diversity of Japanese-filipinos. They are divided into three groups: those who left behind in the Philippines, those who withdrew and came back to Japan right after WWII, and post-war children who were born from marriages between Japanese and Filipinas. By discussing how Japanese-Filipinos accept this diversity, I would like to consider  the possiblity that the increasingly complex backgrounds of Nikkeijin brings our future Nikkeijin studies . 

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