The Nisei generation's educational experience in Japan

本研究项目有两个目的：调查四个变量（地理、年龄、宗教、性别）如何影响被父母送回日本接受教育的第二代日本人（在北美出生的第二代日本人，拥有双重国籍）在日本接受的教育，并展示他们的教育经历如何影响日本和美国社会。与那些被送到东京地区的第二代不同，将年轻的第二代送到他们父母移民的县的主要目的是让他们通过进入小学学习来获得“他们的遗产文化”，因为大多数人都足够年轻进入这一级别的学校系统。许多被送到京都学习的第二代男孩是为了获得佛教牧师的专业执照，但京都的佛教第二代学校教育促进了佛教在美国的本土化。大多数来到日本的年轻第二代女性都是从北美每个日本社区的精英中挑选出来的。第二代在日本的教育受到地区、州和国家背景的影响。在和歌山，他们的教育经历导致了南加州终端岛公立学校的目的从“美国化”的外国人口，使二代人成为双文化。在熊本，它加强了熊本人的跨国网络，该网络延伸到日本和北美。在冲绳，它促进了向上流动。

This research project has two purposes : to investigate how four variables (geography, age, religion, sex) affected the education received in Japan by the Nisei (second-generation Japanese born in North America with dual citizenship) who were sent by their parents back to Japan for schooling, and to demonstrate how their educational experience influenced both Japanese and American society. Unlike those Nisei who were sent to the Tokyo area, the main purpose of sending young Nisei to the prefectures from which their parents had emigrated was for them to acquire the "culture of their heritage" by enrolling in elementary school, since most were young enough to enter this level of the school system. Many Nisei boys who were sent to study in Kyoto were there to receive professional licenses as Buddhist priests, but Buddhist Nisei schooling in Kyoto promoted the indigenization of Buddhism in America. Most of the young Nisei women who came to Japan were selected from among the elite in each Japanese community in North America. The Nisei's schooling in Japan was influenced by regional, state, and national contexts. In Wakayama, their educational experience led to a shift in the purpose of public schooling on Terminal Island in Southern California from "Americanizing" a foreign population to enabling the Nisei to be bicultural. In Kumamoto, it served to strengthen a transnational network of people from Kumamoto that extended across both Japan and North America. In Okinawa it promoted upward mobility.