Multilingual information for foreign residents in Japan

A Survey of Government Initiatives

Bibliographic Data

ID4945789
AuthorsNanette Gottlieb (0000-0001-9199-2321, The University of Queensland, corresponding author)
Year2018
Volume2018
Issue251
Pages131-149
Publication date2018-04-25
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueInternational Journal of the Sociology of Language (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0165-2516 • E-ISSN: 1613-3668
PublisherWalter de Gruyter GmbH (PUBLISHER • DE)
DOI10.1515/ijsl-2018-0007
OpenAlexW2799466467
LanguageEN
Citations received8
References cited4

In Japan, translation of important information for foreign residents into community languages has occurred for many years mainly at the local government level rather than the national, largely because the national government has been slow to acknowledge Japan's increasing diversity given the enduring national belief in ethnolinguistic homogeneity. In recent years, however, this has begun to change: although the bulk of the translation activity for foreign residents still occurs at grassroots level through the agency of local government and private organizations, the national government has begun to view such residents as seikatsusha 'people making their lives in Japan' rather than as visitors passing through. This article examines the provision of translated multilingual information to newcomer foreign residents in Japanese communities by both local and national government in order to examine this change

Economic growth · Economics · Grassroots · Linguistics · Political science · Politics · Social science · Sociology · Diaspora, migration, transnational identity · Law · Multilingual Education and Policy · Public Administration · Translation Studies and Practices

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