Internal boundaries and models of multiculturalism in contemporary Japan / Nelson Graburn and John Ertl -- The great Hanshin-Awaji earthquake and twon-making towards multiculturalism / Yasuko Takezawa -- Globalization and the new meanings of the foreign executive in Japan / Tomoko Hamada -- (Re)Constructing boundaries: international marriage migrants in Yamagata as agents of multiculturalism / Chris Burgess -- Internationalization and localization : intitutional and personal engagements with Japan's Kokusaika movement / John Ertl -- Transnational migration of women : changing boundaries of contemporary Japan / Shinji Yamashita -- Crossing ethnic boundaries: Japanese Brazilian return migrants and the ethnic challenge of Japan's newest immigrant minority / Takeyuki "Gaku" Tsuda -- Datsu zainichi-ron : an emerging discourse on belonging among ethnic Koreans in Japan / Jefferey T. Hester -- Traversing religious and legal boundaries in postwar Nagasaki : an interfaith ritual for the spirits of the dead / John Nelson -- Transnational community activities of visa-overstayers in Japan : governance and transnationalism from below / Keiko Yamanaka -- "Newcomers" in public education : Chinese and Vietnamese children in a Buraku community / Yuko Okubo -- A critical review of academic perspectives of blackness in Japan / Mitzi Carter and Aina Hunter -- Traversing religious and legal boundaries in postwar Nagasaki: an interfaith ritual for the spirits of the dead / John Nelson -- Outside the sumo ring? : foreigners and a rethinking of the national sport / R. Kenji Tierney -- Multiculturalism, museums, and tourism in Japan / Nelson Graburn.