Frontmatter -- Contents -- On language policy in the age of globalization with -- good governance -- Thrifty monolingualism and luxuriating -- plurilingualism? -- Challenges for language policy in today's -- Japan -- Is the promotion of languages such as German and -- Japanese abroad still appropriate today? -- Japanese and German language education in the UK: -- problems, parallels, and prospects -- Changing economic values of German and -- Japanese -- The debate on English as an official language in -- Japan -- Remains of the day: language orphans and the -- decline of German as a medical lingua franca in Japan -- The case for choice ... language preferences in -- Japanese academic publishing -- Tokio or Tokyo? Dschudo or Judo? On writing foreign -- names -- Effects of globalization on minority languages in -- Europe ... focusing on Celtic languages -- Backmatter