1st Edition
Japanese Migrations to Australia Transformation and Heterogeneity
1. Introduction: Reconceptualising Japanese Migrations to Australia: Post-Middle-Class Mobilities and Heterogeneous Global Pathways
Iori Hamada, Takeshi Hamano and Yoshikazu Shiobara
Part 1: Japanese Migrations to Australia: Their Angles and Trends
2. Uneven Cosmopolitanism: Japanese Working Holiday Makers in Australia and the ‘Lost Decade’
3. Japanese Student Mobility to Australia: Distortions in Policy and Practice
Jeremy Breaden
4. Japanese Women’s Partnership Migration to Australia: A Backdrop of the Resurgence of Japanese Migration to Australia after World War II
Takeshi Hamano
5. Journeys of Belonging: Mixed-race Japanese Australian Youth in a Mobile World
Aoife Wilkinson
6. Conflict Narratives: Post-3/11 Japanese Migration to Australia and Life Afterwards
Iori Hamada and Ryota Wakamatsu
Part 2: Japanese Communities to Enrich Multicultural Australia
7. Teaching Japanese as a Community Language in Australia: Insights from Educators and their Beliefs
Kyoko Kawasaki and Naomi Kurata
8. Re-imagining Japan-Australia Relations Through Tourism: An Examination of the Backgrounds and Strategies of Daikyo’s Resort Development in Cairns
Kazuhito Onozuka
9. ‘Gastro-Cool’: Japanese Restaurants in Urban Australia, 1950s–2023
Iori Hamada
10. Nikkei Australia: A Creative Cultural Community
Mayu Kanamori
11. Fusion Food: Japanese Ancestry and the Meaning Making of Food in Coastal Broome, Western Australia
Yuriko Yamanouchi
12. Crossing Borders, Redefining Identities: Japanese LGBTQ+ Migration to Australia
Masami Tamagawa
13. Gendered Sub-politics in the Civil Society: Profiling Political Culture of Japanese Community in Australia
Takeshi Hamano, Shinsuke Funaki and Ruth Phillips
14. Conclusion: Between Nihonjin and Nikkeijin: Multiple Realities and Communities of Contemporary Japanese Migrants in Australia
Yoshikazu Shiobara
Biography
Iori Hamada is Lecturer in Japanese Studies at Monash University, Australia. She is the author of The Japanese Restaurant: Tasting the New Exotic in Australia (Routledge, 2024). She received the Institute of Social Science and Oxford University Press Best Paper Prize (2019) and the Endeavour Japan Award (2006) from the Government of Australia.
Takeshi Hamano is a Professor of The University of Kitakyushu, Japan. He is also a research affiliate with the Center for Japanese Studies of the University of Michigan, USA.
Yoshikazu Shiobara is a Professor of Keio University, Japan. His current research interests are multiculturalism and migration issues in Australia and Japan. He has authored numerous monographs and edited volumes, including Cultural and Social Division in Contemporary Japan: Rethinking Discourses of Inclusion and Exclusion (Routledge, 2020).
"Despite the impact of the White Australia policy, Japanese migration to Australia has a long and rich history. Japanese Migrations to Australia is the first English-language study to provide a comprehensive overview of the past and present experiences of migrants from Japan. Its chapters shed vital new light on this important story by dispelling myths and stereotypes and revealing the complexity and diversity of the evolving Japanese migrant presence in Australia."
Tessa Morris-Suzuki, Professor Emerita of Japanese History, Australian National University.
"A distinctive and significant feature of the book lies in its broad and contemporary scope, which offers an important analytical perspective. It also directs attention to groups and phenomena that have previously fallen outside conventional analytical frameworks. Despite the long history of Japanese presence and their visible role within Australian society, there have not been substantial comprehensive studies on contemporary migration from Japan to Australia. The present volume is particularly valuable, as it examines current patterns of Japanese migration from multiple angles. As a comprehensive monograph, it constitutes one of the few extensive studies to systematically address contemporary Japanese migration to Australia. This wide-ranging analysis has the potential to introduce a fresh perspective into the field of migration studies in contemporary societies."
Tetsuo Mizukami, Professor, College of Sociology, Rikkyo University
