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Technological University Dublin
CALL: Irish Journal for Culture, Arts, Literature and Language
Migration; Japan; multiculturalism; municipal government; language policy
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Changing From Within: Immigration And Japan, Brian Gaynor
Changing From Within: Immigration And Japan, Brian Gaynor
CALL: Irish Journal for Culture, Arts, Literature and Language
Although Japan’s demographic decline is well known, the slow but steady increase in the country’s immigrant population has been less acknowledged. Despite this continuing influx of foreigners the Japanese state still has no coordinated immigration policy that clearly addresses such issues as residency, employment, education, and access to social services. Rather it is at the local level that towns and villages all across the country are having to develop ad hoc responses to the growing number of foreigners resident in their communities. Hitherto most research into immigrants’ lives has focused on what are known as ‘diversity points’, large urban areas …