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The Coming Internationalization: Can Japan assimilate its immigrants?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 May 2025

Arudou Debito
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With the recent ethnic riots in France, The Economist (London) ran a thoughtful article (“Minority Reports”) on their causes. It posed an important question: Why are some countries able to assimilate immigrants and their children more peacefully than others? It took a stab at comparing “integrationist” vs. “assimilationist” public policies in France, England, Germany, Holland, and the United States.

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Asia-Pacific Journal , Volume 4 , Issue 2 , February 2006 , e23
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[1] ILO website, Center for Immigration Studies website citing US Census Bureau

[2] AP, “Japan Marks Shift, as Deaths Outpace Births”, December 23, 2005.

[3] Simon Jackson, Director of Ridgerunner Architectural Design and Development in Sapporo, developing ski-resort condominiums in Niseko, Hokkaido.

[4] John Lie, Multiethnic Japan, Harvard Belknap, 2001.