I have a Chinese mother and a Japanese father who was left behind in China after WWII. I came to Japan when I was eight, and I experienced an identity crisis through border crossing. As long as I was living in Japan, I feared being called “Chinese” and I was going to seal “China” away to live with the Japanese majority earnestly.
After I graduated from university, I became an English teacher at a Nagano public junior high school. In the first school that I worked at I taught Chinese-Japanese children from China. From then I could say to the others that I came from China From then I studied Chinese literature. Next, I studied comparative education in China for three years from 2007.
The purpose of this paper is to show an example of how “the way of life=career formation” led me to acknowledge my identity.
