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Flowers, Petrice R.

doi:10.1080/14672715.2012.738540

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“…There was a separation between kokusaika and the Japanese national policy on rejecting immigrants resulted in the loss conception of 'place' among Japanese. Gradually, tabunka kyosei (multicultural coexistence) replaced kokusaika since Japan was becoming more inclusive to foreigners, adopting global norms, and promoting the global value of multiculturalism [27]. Since kokusaika, Japan has become more open to the outside world, and the awareness of cultural diversity is perceived to contribute to Japan's development to the well-accepted international citizen status.…”

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The Roles of Southeast Asian Muslim Tourists in Promoting Japan Halal Business

Wardhani,

Aulia,

Dugis

2023

Atlantis Highlights in Social Sciences, Education and Humanities

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This study explores Japan's transformation by taking halal tourism as a case study by analyzing Japan's tourism strategy in targeting Southeast Asian Muslims successfully. The research looks at Japan's halal business development up to 2019, before the COVID-19 outbreak. The introduction of halal tourism has gained popularity among Muslim travelers, especially Southeast Asians. The omotenashi (hospitality) has become a currency in Japan's tourism industry and has been a significant national economic driver for the last ten years. The advent of halal tourism transforms Japan significantly, from a 'developing country' in the context of tourism to a 'tourism-oriented nation.' The transformation is necessary for Japan's survival, considering the weakened progress in the national economy in the post-Bubble economy. Based on experience, Japanese tourism suffered stagnation due to the 'Kokusaika' (internationalization) policy. The 2008-2009 crisis led the Japanese government to look for alternatives to improve the national economy by promoting Japanese identity by introducing omotenashi. The research finds that omotenashi has successfully altered Japanese perception of Muslims as Japan becomes more multicultural than before. This study is explanatory and qualitative. Data were obtained from both observation and document/literature study.

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The Roles of Southeast Asian Muslim Tourists in Promoting Japan Halal Business

Wardhani,

Aulia,

Dugis

2023

Atlantis Highlights in Social Sciences, Education and Humanities

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“…The city government, along with neighbourhood associations, has supported parades and festivals showcasing the various cultures of the foreign residents such as the Philippine Festival and the Brazilian Day. While this is not entirely bad, Carruthers () and Flowers () warn us of the peril of the so‐called 3F multiculturalism that essentializes the ‘food, festival and fashion’ of a culture, thereby failing to recognize the subjectivity of the migrant.…”

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Uneven Integration: Local Government Integration Policies and Filipino Residents in Nagoya City, Japan

Sioson

2017

Asia & Pacific Policy Stud

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The failure at the national level to address foreign resident integration has highlighted the need for local governments to implement policies and provide social services to foreign residents to promote multicultural co-existence. How such policies impact the integration of foreign residents given the specific context by which they migrated and settled is what this article seeks to investigate. Indices measuring integration policies tend to assess only what policies are intended to measure, leaving out unintended outcomes that can help better understand policy impact. This study is based on a mixed-methods study of Filipino residents in Nagoya City. Using a multidimensional approach to understand the extent of integration, I found that the Filipino residents are experiencing an uneven integration, brought about by a conflation of the approach of the local government to integration that prioritizes structural integration and the specific context of the Filipino residents in Japan.

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“…They have a or class status) and among those external Others (Flowers 2012). For a similarly critical analysis of the concept, see Burgess (2004).…”

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Representing the alternative: demographic change, migrant eldercare workers, and national imagination in Japan

Świtek

2014

Contemporary Japan

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When in August 2008 a group of 208 Indonesians undertook handson training in nursing and eldercare in Japan under the provisions of the Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA), their arrival fed directly into debates over the appropriate means to tackle the various projected problems coming with Japan's aging society and declining population. In this light, the EPA scheme, offering an unprecedented possibility for the Indonesian workers to remain in Japan permanently, came to be debated in terms of Japan's stance on immigration and Japanese self-representations as a nation. As such, although numerically insignificant and officially not aimed at supplementing the Japanese labor market, the scheme triggered debates over the future shape of Japanese society, and how, and whether, foreigners could be included in it. Against this background, in this article I consider the relationship between the demographic changes and the way a nation imagines who can or should belong. I suggest that the media representations of the EPA trainees and the debates surrounding the program were expressions of particular ideologies of a Japanese nation trying to position itself vis-à-vis the projected demographic changes and globalizing processes, which brought about a need for a redefinition of certain representations of contemporary Japanese society.

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Cited by 15 publications

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The Roles of Southeast Asian Muslim Tourists in Promoting Japan Halal Business

The Roles of Southeast Asian Muslim Tourists in Promoting Japan Halal Business

Uneven Integration: Local Government Integration Policies and Filipino Residents in Nagoya City, Japan

Representing the alternative: demographic change, migrant eldercare workers, and national imagination in Japan

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