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Understanding multicultural Japan
| Content Provider | Scilit |
|---|---|
| Author | Tsuneyoshi, Ryoko |
| Copyright Year | 2018 |
| Description | Book Name: Routledge international handbook of multicultural education research in Asia Pacific |
| Abstract | The process of the diversification of people, which accompanies globalization, challenges the existing boundaries which separate different groups. As the process of globalization affects countries around the globe, there are few exceptions to its influence. This chapter focuses on Japan, one of the societies most quoted as “homogeneous” or homogeneously oriented. However, since the 1980s, Japan has experienced an inflow of foreign workers, spouses of Japanese, etc., which has made diversity more visible. Preceding the inflow of the new foreigners, there were of course, the long-existing ethnic minorities in Japan – the Koreans in Japan. Japan also witness the increase of Japanese returnees, Japanese children who had received part of the schooling abroad and had returned to Japan as Japanese businesses expanded internationally. The diversification of the society has challenged existing definitions of cultural boundaries, and this chapter identified four frameworks that have emerged as a response to the diversification of Japanese society. The four frameworks are: internationalization, human rights, multicultural coexistence, and globalization. Each framework is an attempt to capture the new landscape of diversity, and each puts different populations together. Such an ongoing redefinition of diversity illustrates how a society moving from assumptions of homogeneity to diversity socially constructs the borders of cultures within.This chapter identifies four frameworks that have emerged as a response to the diversification of Japanese society. The four frameworks are: internationalization, human rights, multicultural coexistence, and globalization. Each framework is an attempt to capture the new landscape of diversity, and each puts different populations together. In the first category, that of internationalization, the newcomer foreign children, Japanese returnees, and the college-level foreign students tend to be discussed together in public documents, etc. From the 1950s to the period of internal internationalization of the 1970s onward, many Japanese schools participated as UNESCO associated schools. International understanding education is seen as promoting understanding between Japanese children and children of other nations. The second framework of human rights focuses squarely on what the first framework does not – the discriminated-against populations within Japan. The third framework is that of "multicultural. There is another framework, that of globalization, which has increasingly gained prominence in Japan. |
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| Ending Page | 200 |
| Page Count | 13 |
| Starting Page | 188 |
| DOI | 10.4324/9781351179959-15 |
| Language | English |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited |
| Publisher Date | 2018-03-28 |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Subject Keyword | Book Name: Routledge International Handbook of Multicultural Education Research in Asia Pacific Cultural Studies Diversity Japanese Children Challenged Existing Japanese Returnees Boundaries Internationalization |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Chapter |
