Igor Saveliev is Professor of History and Cultural Anthropology at the Graduate School of Humanities, Nagoya University, Japan.Natalie-Anne Hall is Postdoctoral Research Associate in the Online Civic Culture Centre, Loughborough University, UK.

• IntroductionPART I Patterns of Migration and Settlement in Japan and Creating a Sustainable Society Chapter 1. The diversification of Japan’s foreign-born and ethnic minority population and its relationship to social sustainabilityChapter 2. Japan’s Chinese migrant community in transformation and its symbolic representationsChapter 3. From a Vietnamese village to a Japanese factory: transforming migration patterns of Vietnamese technical internsChapter 4. Is nurse migration under Economic Partnership Agreements sustainable? Challenges and prospects of the EPA programChapter 5. Indians in Japan: becoming visible in a ‘closed’ societyPART II Discrimination and social vulnerabilitiesChapter 6. Understanding online racism in Japan in global and local contextChapter 7 Aging as a Korean resident in Japan: Minority care-giving and the construction of collective memoryChapter 8 Aging and care for Returnees from China: Facets of intercultural care in a postcolonial worldConclusion: Japan’s multi-ethnic future

Migration, Aging, and Japan's Sustainable Society provides essential insights into how Japan is dealing with demographic change by instrumentalizing immigration, as well as the responses of migrants and their communities. It is required reading for anyone interested in contemporary Japanese society and global migration issues.(Sven Saaler, Sophia University, Tokyo)

Igor Saveliev is Professor of History and Cultural Anthropology at the Graduate School of Humanities, Nagoya University, Japan.Natalie-Anne Hall is Postdoctoral Research Associate in the Online Civic Culture Centre, Loughborough University, UK.

• IntroductionPART I Patterns of Migration and Settlement in Japan and Creating a Sustainable Society Chapter 1. The diversification of Japan’s foreign-born and ethnic minority population and its relationship to social sustainabilityChapter 2. Japan’s Chinese migrant community in transformation and its symbolic representationsChapter 3. From a Vietnamese village to a Japanese factory: transforming migration patterns of Vietnamese technical internsChapter 4. Is nurse migration under Economic Partnership Agreements sustainable? Challenges and prospects of the EPA programChapter 5. Indians in Japan: becoming visible in a ‘closed’ societyPART II Discrimination and social vulnerabilitiesChapter 6. Understanding online racism in Japan in global and local contextChapter 7 Aging as a Korean resident in Japan: Minority care-giving and the construction of collective memoryChapter 8 Aging and care for Returnees from China: Facets of intercultural care in a postcolonial worldConclusion: Japan’s multi-ethnic future

Migration, Aging, and Japan's Sustainable Society provides essential insights into how Japan is dealing with demographic change by instrumentalizing immigration, as well as the responses of migrants and their communities. It is required reading for anyone interested in contemporary Japanese society and global migration issues.(Sven Saaler, Sophia University, Tokyo)

Igor Saveliev is Professor of History and Cultural Anthropology at the Graduate School of Humanities, Nagoya University, Japan.Natalie-Anne Hall is Postdoctoral Research Associate in the Online Civic Culture Centre, Loughborough University, UK.

• IntroductionPART I Patterns of Migration and Settlement in Japan and Creating a Sustainable Society Chapter 1. The diversification of Japan’s foreign-born and ethnic minority population and its relationship to social sustainabilityChapter 2. Japan’s Chinese migrant community in transformation and its symbolic representationsChapter 3. From a Vietnamese village to a Japanese factory: transforming migration patterns of Vietnamese technical internsChapter 4. Is nurse migration under Economic Partnership Agreements sustainable? Challenges and prospects of the EPA programChapter 5. Indians in Japan: becoming visible in a ‘closed’ societyPART II Discrimination and social vulnerabilitiesChapter 6. Understanding online racism in Japan in global and local contextChapter 7 Aging as a Korean resident in Japan: Minority care-giving and the construction of collective memoryChapter 8 Aging and care for Returnees from China: Facets of intercultural care in a postcolonial worldConclusion: Japan’s multi-ethnic future

Migration, Aging, and Japan's Sustainable Society provides essential insights into how Japan is dealing with demographic change by instrumentalizing immigration, as well as the responses of migrants and their communities. It is required reading for anyone interested in contemporary Japanese society and global migration issues.(Sven Saaler, Sophia University, Tokyo)