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Appendix 2: Descriptions of
Materials Used for Discussion

I used the following materials in order to stimulate discussion:

(1) A picture where I asked the girls: ‘Have you ever felt like this before?’
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(illustrator) to print this illustration, which is also used on the cover
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of this book. (This illustration originally appeared in Time Asia on

March 11, 2002: 22.)
(2) Photos from a Japanese glossy magazine (Nikita) of which all of the
models were non-Japanese, or of Japanese and white mixed parentage
(see the section ‘A “discourse of foreigner attractiveness”’ [p. 42]).
(3) A cover photo from Time Asia magazine (April 23, 2001) featuring
three ‘Eurasian’ girls with the headline ‘All Mixed Up’ and with the
article inside entitled ‘Eurasian Invasion’.
(4) A picture from Time Asia (March 4, 2002) of a newly debuted brown-
skinned ‘multiethnic’ Barbie doll (see Extract 5.5). The picture below
of the multiethnic Barbie doll, named ‘Kayla’ is similar to that of the
photo that appeared in Time Asia.
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(5) A copy of a Japanese police report about illegal foreigners in Japan

(see Figures 2.1–2.4).
(6) Three photos from a Japanese children’s book on the human body
entitled: Hito no Karada (Suzuki, 1984) (see the sections ‘Contesting
Ethnic Embodiment as Inferior or “Othered”’ [p. 185] and ‘Celebrating
Ethnic Embodiment as Privileged Cultural Capital’ [p. 188] and
Extracts 7.2, 7.3).