Multiculturalism in the New Japan: Crossing the Boundaries Within

Preface and Acknowledgements

Chapter 1. Introduction: Internal boundaries and models of multiculturalism in contemporary Japan
Nelson Graburn and John 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 Japan’s 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 Japan’s 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 Vietnamese children in a Buraku community
Yuko Okubo

Chapter 11. A critical review of academic perspectives of blackness in Japan
Mitzi Carter and Aina Hunter

Chapter 12. Traversing religious and legal boundaries in postwar Nagasaki: An interfaith ritual for the spirits of the dead
John Nelson

Chapter 13. Outside the Sumo ring? Foreigners and a rethinking of the national sport
R. Kenji Tierney

Chapter 14. Multiculturalism, museums, and tourism in Japan
Nelson Graburn

List of Contributors
Bibliography
Index