Multiculturalism in the New Japan: Crossing the Boundaries Within - Paperback

by Nelson H. Graburn (Editor), John Ertl (Editor), R. Kenji Tierney (Editor)

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.

Author Biography

Nelson H. Graburn (1936-2025) was educated in Natural Sciences and Anthropology at Cambridge, McGill, and the University of Chicago. He carried out ethnographic research with the Inuit of Northern Canada and in Japan. He taught at the University of California, Berkeley, from 1964, with visiting appointments at the National Museum of Civilization, Ottawa; Le Centre des Hautes Etudes Touristiques, Aix-en-Provence; the National Museum of Ethnology (Minpaku) in Osaka; and the Research Center for Korean Studies, Kyushu National University, Fukuoka. His recent research focused on the study of art, tourism, museums, and the expression and representation of identity.