Multiculturalism in the Ne Japan Crossing the Boundaries Within [Paperback]

Like other industrial nations, Japan is experiencing its own forms of, and problems with, internationalization and multiculturalism. This volume focuses on several aspects of this process and examines the immigrant minorities as well as their Japanese recipient communities. Multiculturalism is considered broadly, and includes topics often neglected in other works, such as: religious pluralism, domestic and international tourism, political regionalism and decentralization, sports, business styles in the post-Bubble era, and the education of immigrant minorities.

Preface and Acknowledgements

Chapter 1.Introduction: Internal boundaries and models of multiculturalism in contemporary Japan
Nelson GraburnandJohn Ertl

Chapter 2.The great Hanshin-Awaji earthquake and town-making towards multiculturalism
Yasuko Takezawa

Chapter 3.Globalization and the new meanings of the foreign executive in Japan
Tomoko Hamada

Chapter 4.(Re)constructing boundaries: International marriage migrants in Yamagata as agents of multiculturalism
Chris Burgess

Chapter 5.Internationalization and localization: Institutional and personal engagements with Japans Kokusaika movement
John Ertl

Chapter 6.Transnational migration of women: Changing boundaries of contemporary Japan
Shinji Yamashita

Chapter 7.Crossing ethnic boundaries: Japanese Brazilian return migrants and the ethnic challenge of Japans newest immigrant minority
Takeyuki Gaku Tsuda

Chapter 8.Datsu Zainichi-ron: An emerging discourse on belonging among ethnic Koreans in Japan
Jeffry Hester

Chapter 9.Transnational community activities of visa-overstayers in Japan: Governance and transnationalism from below
Keiko Yamanaka

Chapter 10. Newcomers in public education: Chinese and VietnamelS°