R. Kenji Tierney earned his Ph.D. at the University of California, Berkeley (2002). After a Reischauer Postdoctoral Fellowship at Harvard University and ExEAS Fellowship at the Weatherhead Institute, Columbia University, he has taught at Union College, Schenectady, New York, since 2004. He has taught courses on Japan and East Asia, Africa, food, space, and place; he specializes in historical and symbolic anthropology.

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

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.