About the book

Are you interested in what’s going on with immigration to Japan, a country often thought to be closed off to foreigners? In recent years, the number of immigrants in Japan has been rapidly increasing, partially as a direct result of government policies to address labor shortages associated with Japan's aging and declining population. What have these changes meant for Japan as a nation, as well as for foreign communities living in Japan? With contributions from a diverse group of thirteen scholars representing five academic disciplines, No Island Is an Island puts recent changes to the nature of immigration to Japan as well as the foreign population of Japan into social, political, historical, cultural, and religious context.

This book features chapters by Eric Han, Chikako Kashiwazaki, Jotaro Kato, Gracia Liu-Farrer, Takahashi Norihito, Glenda S. Roberts, Noriko Fujita, Hilary J. Holbrow, Yunchen Tian, Michael Strausz, Paul Capobianco, James F. Hollifield, Michael Orlando Sharpe, and Erin Aeran Chung.

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