No island is an island : perspectives on immigration to Japan /
"Despite Japan's long-held reputation as an ethnically homogeneous country largely closed to foreigners, the number of immigrants in Japan has been increasing, partially as a direct result of government policies to address labor shortages associated with Japan's aging and declining po...
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Honolulu :
University of Hawaiʻi Press,
[2025]
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction. The dynamics of Japan's immigration in three turning points / Michael Strausz
- An open empire? Imperial Japan's border controls, 1899-1945 / Eric Han
- Side doors and redefined skills: continuity in Japanese labor migration policy / Chikako Kashiwazaki
- Postwar unauthorized migration into Japan / Kato Jotaro and Gracia Liu-Farrer
- Migrants and religious diversification in contemporary Japan: critical situations resulting from the COVID-19 disaster / Takahashi Norihito
- Foreign labor without foreign residents: foreign agricultural labor in Japan / Glenda S. Roberts and Noriko Fujita
- "Training" foreign workers, cultivating bias? TITP and immigration to Japan / Hilary J. Holbrow
- Local-level governance and contestation of temporary labor migration / Yunchen Tian
- Shy foreign labor supporters? Immigration and Japan's 2019 House of Councilors Election / Michael Strausz
- Why it's different now: quantitative and qualitative changes to Japanese migration trends / Paul Capobianco
- Japan as an "emerging migration state": a litmus test of liberal democracy? / James F. Hollifield and Michael Orlando Sharpe
- Japan as a country of non-immigration / Erin Aeran Chung.