This article examines the education‐migration industry that has channelled students from China and Viet Nam into Japan over the past three decades and discusses the conditions for the emergence of such an industry, the major actors and the reasons for their changing roles and practices. It argues that the education‐migration industry in Japan emerged because of the discrepant institutional logics. Japan's reluctance to open the door for labour import, despite its acute labour shortage, has turned international education into a sanctioned channel of labour migration and thereby created opportunities for international education to become a thriving migration industry. As long as this institutional gap remains, government regulations will only create new sources of power and profits for brokers who can navigate complex regulations and employ illicit means to satisfy the legal requirements. The education‐migration industry is therefore a derivative of Japan's immigration regime and actively interacts with government policies.

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In this article, An Huy Tran contributes to the discussion on research methods in transnational migration studies by reflecting on the utilization of written vignette in studying male migrants' transnational experiences and negotiations of sexualities and masculinities. The article explains how research vignettes could be suitably constructed and implemented in transnational migration studies and subsequently discusses the methodological connotations and the epistemological meanings of the technique. The article argues that the vignette technique can be a satisfactory supplementary inquiry method employed not only to examine migrants' experiences, subjectivities, and perceptions but also to avoid common (pre)assumptions in contemporary migration research.