Transcending Language Education in Japan

Madoka Hammine is Assistant Professor in the College of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences at the University of Denver, ColoradoNathanael Rudolph is Professor of sociolinguistics and language education at Kindai University in Higashiosaka, Japan

‘Japanese society is likely to be changing and the publication of this book is timely. These chapters reveal that Japan is not a homogeneous and monolingual country rather, it is a heterogeneous and multilingual one. Readers will listen to the voices of invisible minorities who have struggled to secure their personal and/or professional identities in Japan and beyond.’

• Foreword, John C. Maher (International Christian University, Japan)Introduction, Madoka Hammine (Meio University, Japan) and Nathanael Rudolph (Kindai University, Japan) 1. Forging “Uneasy Alliances” through Multi-Scalar Networks of being “Japanese”: Minority, Colonizer, and Outsider Positionalities of a Researcher-Educator, Neriko Doerr (Ramapo College, Japan)2. Why Do I Have Mixed and Confusing Feelings about Japaneseness?: Reflecting on 20 Years of Teaching as a JFL Teacher, Saeri Yamamoto (Yamaguchi University, Japan)3. ??????????????:??????????????????? (How Japanese am I? - Reflecting on Borders and Borderlines of “Japanese” in Myself), Kimiko Suzuki (Haverford College, USA)4. Language, Identity, and Empowerment: A Zainichi Korean’s Perspective, Jisuk Park (University of Toronto, Canada)5. ???????????????????????? (Inter-School Community Mobility and Ethnic Identity Formation), Aena Noh (Kindai University, Japan) 6. The Linguistic Shift in a Language Island: Changes in the Community through a Research and Language Revitalization Project, Joy Taniguchi (Shizuoka Institute of Science and Technology, Japan) 7. Love and Hope in the Face of Darkness: Teaching and Training in Children’s Homes in Japan, Kanako Ishida and Nathanael Rudolph (Kindai University, Japan) 8. Yaeyamanness, Okinawanness and Japaneseness in Japan - A Duoethnographic Inquiry from Yaeyaman Language Revitalization, Madoka Hammine (Meio University, Japan) and Masami Hanashiro (School Teacher Emeritus)9. Indigeneity and Identity: Who is/are Indigenous Amami?, Satoru Nakagawa (University of Manitoba, Canada)10. Ainu Language Reclamation through Te Ataarangi Method: Nurturing New Ainu Speakers, Silja Ijas (Hokkaido University, Japan) and Kenji Sekine (Biratori Town Board of Education, Department of Lifelong Learning)11. Revealing and Retelling Japan and Japaneseness through the Way English Is Taught: Scrutinizing Accounts of Encounters of an Identifying Nature, Glenn Toh (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore)12. An Autoethnography of Ungovernable Self: Encountering Language-Capturing Apparatus in the English Education Industry in Japan , Xinqi He (Rikkyo University, Japan)Conclusion, Madoka Hammine (Meio University, Japan) and Nathanael Rudolph (Kindai University, Japan) ReferencesIndex