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Rosanna.: Trans Pacific Press.. 2002.. 435pp, notes, references, index, paperback. This book is an English translation of Tan'itsu Minzoku Shinwa no Kigen, which won the Suntory Culture Award in 1996 and has since become essential reading for all scholars of Japanese national identity and the history of Nihonjinron. Oguma examines the ethnic self-identity of the Japanese as developed by a wide range of authors from the mid-Meiji period until the postwar period. The book demonstrates that the myth of ethnic homogeneity was not established during the Meiji period, nor during the Pacific War, but only after the war ended. . . . . The study also examines how people living in prewar Japanese colonies such as Korea and Taiwan were represented in contemporary literature." Publisher's description. .