Coping with International Migration and Implications for Higher Education and Society in Japan

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This paper proposes that Japan has been on transition on the context of migration. Foreigners now come to Japan with various objectives such as higher study, working and living, in addition to sightseeing. There are plans on the way to increase the foreign student intake in the higher educationsector. At the same time, the recruitment of foreign graduates in Japan has been on the increase and, they are being recruited as skilled labor. Most of the Japanese descendents, on the other hand, are beingrecruited for jobs which do not demand any specific skill(s) in general. As such, Japan has been entering to a new era of multiculturalism, where the foreigners from various countries join Japanese communityfor longer stay. The time is right to start thinking seriously on how to cope with the issues relating to a multicultural society.
2010-03-20