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Book SynopsisFaced with an aging workforce, Japanese firms are hiring foreign workers in ever-increasing numbers. In 1990 Japan's government began encouraging the migration of Nikkeijin (overseas Japanese) who are presumed to assimilate more easily than are...
Trade ReviewThe story that was once told about citizens of foreign countries who could demonstrate Japanese ancestry was that even if they had never been to Japan, even if they couldn't speak the language, they nevertheless remained, in some essential way, Japanese.... Brokered Homeland focuses on the way in which these people's self-understanding—as well as other people's understanding of them—shifts as a result of their experiences in Japan.... Roth is an astute observer and a graceful writer.
-- David Cozy * The Japan Times *
There is much to enjoy in both of these books. They are both well written (Roth's three-paragraph account of the kite-flying festival in Hamamatsu sets a scene as well as any recent ethnography I have read) and well structured.... Roth's book is probably the one for students doing an option on Japan: punchy and to the point, easily read in a long afternoon.
-- Roger Goodman, University of Oxford * Journal of Japanese Studies *
