Introduction. Internal Boundaries and Models of Multiculturalism in Contemporary Japan

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS v
3. Preface vii
4. Introduction. Internal Boundaries and Models of Multiculturalism in Contemporary Japan 1
5. Chapter One. The Great Hanshin-Awaji Earthquake and Town-Making towards Multiculturalism 32
6. Chapter Two. Globalization and the New Meanings of the Foreign Executive in Japan 43
7. Chapter Three. (Re)Constructing Boundaries: International Marriage Migrants in Yamagata as Agents of Multiculturalism 63
8. Chapter Four. Internationalization and Localization: Institutional and Personal Engagements with Japan’s Kokusaika Movement 82
9. Chapter Five. Transnational Migration of Women: Changing Boundaries of Contemporary Japan 101
10. Chapter Six. Crossing Ethnic Boundaries: Japanese Brazilian Return Migrants and the Ethnic Challenge of Japan’s Newest Immigrant Minority 117
11. Chapter Seven. Datsu Zainichi-ron: An Emerging Discourse on Belonging among Ethnic Koreans in Japan 139
12. Chapter Eight. Transnational Community Activities of Visa-Overstayers in Japan: Governance and Transnationalism from Below 151
13. Chapter Nine. “Newcomers” in Public Education: Chinese and Vietnamese Children in a Buraku Community 171
14. Chapter Ten. A Critical Review of Academic Perspectives of Blackness in Japan 188
15. Chapter Eleven. Traversing Religious and Legal Boundaries in Postwar Nagasaki: An Interfaith Ritual for the Spirits of the Dead 199
16. Chapter Twelve. Outside the Sumo Ring? Foreigners and a Rethinking of the National Sport 208
17. Chapter Thirteen. Multiculturalism, Museums, and Tourism in Japan 218
18. Contributors 241
19. Index 246