Despite success in many areas of education policy, the Japanese education system has
been criticized at home and abroad for poor levels of communicative foreign language …

Japan is the world's fastest “graying society.” Numerous experts advocate expanding the
non-Japanese workforce to prevent a debilitating labor shortage. To promote positive …

Contemporary global migrant flows challenge national ingroup boundaries, leading to
demands for greater inclusivity of those migrants in receiving societies worldwide. Utilizing …

Some of the largest and most dynamic economies in the world are located in East and
Southeast Asia. Buoyant economic performance in the region has attracted large numbers of …

As globalization advances and national borders become increasingly porous, Japan is now
facing the human reality of these rapid changes: greater cultural diversity in the workforce …

The email had come a few days before:“Can you meet me on Thursday at lunchtime?” While
I found Dean Tomita amicable, being summoned to his office—with advance notice, no less …

One Japanese government-proposed method of counteracting the growing imbalance
between the nation's workforce and the retired population is to increase the number of …

Abstract Various Western and Japanese sources in the literature have concluded that
Japanese people, who live in a nation with comparatively less ethnocultural diversity than …

Globalizing forces have driven communication scholars to be more reflexive about cultural
assumptions that underlie theory, practice, and research. A gap exists in the literature in …

The Japan Exchange & Teaching (“JET”) Program was started in 1987 by three Japanese
government ministries (ie, the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science, and …