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Language, Education and Citizenship
in Japan

Based on extensive original research, this book explores the early educational experiences of foreign children in Japan. It considers foreign children's experiences of Japanese schools, examines the special tutoring such children often receive to improve their language proficiency and explores the role of mothers in encouraging their children's education. It contrasts the experiences of foreign children with those of Japanese children, and sets out the extensive difficulties foreign children encounter in becoming fully accepted by and integrated into Japanese society. The book concludes by discussing the nature of citizenship in Japan and the importance of education, including early education, in shaping Japanese citizenship.

Genaro Castro-Vzquez is an Assistant Professor in the School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore.

Japan Anthropology Workshop Series
Series editor:
Joy Hendry, Oxford Brookes University

Editorial Board:
Pamela Asquith, University of Alberta
Eyal Ben Ari, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Hirochika Nakamaki, National Museum of Ethnology, Osaka
Kirsten Refsing, University of Copenhagen
Wendy Smith, Monash University

Founder Member of the Editorial Board:

Jan van Bremen, University of Leiden

A Japanese View of Nature
The World of Living Things by Kinji Imanishi
Translated by Pamela J. Asquith, Heita Kawakatsu, Shusuke Yagi
and Hiroyuki Takasaki
Edited and introduced by Pamela J. Asquith

Japan's Changing Generations
Are young people creating a new society?
Edited by Gordon Mathews and Bruce White

The Care of the Elderly in Japan
Yongmei Wu

Community Volunteers in Japan
Everyday stories of social change
Lynne Y. Nakano

Nature, Ritual and Society in Japan's Ryukyu Islands
Arne Rkkum

Psychotherapy and Religion in Japan
The Japanese introspection practice of Naikan
Chikako Ozawa-de Silva

Dismantling the East-West Dichotomy
Essays in honour of Jan van Bremen
Edited by Joy Hendry and Heung Wah Wong

Pilgrimages and Spiritual Quests in Japan
Edited by Maria Rodriguez del Alisal, Peter Ackermann and Dolores Martinez

The Culture of Copying in Japan
Critical and historical perspectives
Edited by Rupert Cox

Primary School in Japan
Self, individuality and learning in elementary education
Peter Cave

Globalisation and Japanese Organisational Culture
An ethnography of a Japanese corporation in France
Mitchell W. Sedgwick

Japanese Tourism and Travel Culture
Edited by Sylvie Guichard-Anguis and Okpyo Moon

Making Japanese Heritage
Edited by Christoph Brumann and Robert A. Cox

Japanese Women, Class and the Tea Ceremony
The voices of tea practitioners in northern Japan
Kaeko Chiba

Home and Family in Japan
Continuity and transformation
Edited by Richard Ronald and Allison Alexy

Abandoned Japanese in Postwar Manchuria
The lives of war orphans and wives in two countries
Yeeshan Chan

Tradition, Democracy and the Townscape of Kyoto
Claiming a right to the past
Christoph Brumann

Religion and Politics in Contemporary Japan
Soka Gakkai youth and Komeito
Anne Mette Fisker-Nielsen

Language, Education and Citizenship in Japan
Genaro Castro-Vzquez

Language, Education and
Citizenship in Japan

Genaro Castro-Vzquez

LONDON AND NEW YORK

First published 2013
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2013 Genaro Castro-Vzquez

The right of Genaro Castro-Vzquez to be identified as author of this work has been asserted by him in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988.

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British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data
A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library

Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data
Castro-Vzquez, Genaro, 1966
Language, education and citizenship in Japan / Genaro Castro-Vzquez.
p. cm. (Japan anthropology workshop series)
1. Students, ForeignJapan. 2. Language acquisitionJapanForeign
speakers. 3. Language and languagesSocial aspectsJapan 4. Language
and languagesStudy and teachingJapan. 5. Language and cultureJapan.
6. Students, ForeignJapanSocial conditions. 7. StudentsJapanSocial
conditions. I. Title.
LB2376.6.J3C37 2012
378.19826910952dc23 2012012766

ISBN: 978-0-415-50103-3 (hbk)
ISBN: 978-0-203-09538-6 (ebk)

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by Taylor & Francis Books

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About the author

Genaro Castro-Vzquez is Assistant Professor in the Division of Sociology at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore. After gaining his PhD from Tsukuba University, he undertook postdoctoral studies at Keio University, both in Japan. His research interests include sexuality, gender and health, and issues faced by Latin Americans living in Japan. Recent publications include In the Shadows: Sexuality, Gender and Pedagogy among Japanese Teenagers (Lexington Books, 2007).

Preface

Genaro Castro-Vzquez opens up a range of fields in this volume that the series has not seen to date, and he brings a sensitivity of style that is also refreshing and new. As a Mexican citizen doing research in Japan, and with a facility in both Spanish and Japanese languages, he was approached to help the child of another Latin American family who was having problems with her schooling. He agreed to become the small girl's tutor, and this kindness threw him into a field of inquiry that broadened out into a fascinating research project that has eventually become written up as this book. The case of one small girl with problems recognizable to anyone with experience of new immigrants to a country with a different language doesn't sound too earth-shattering children are usually rather fast learners, aren't they? However, the Japanese system was not yet used to immigrants, especially those who are Japanese citizens, as this girl was, having a Japanese father but being born in Colombia and here the story begins.

Attitudes to foreigners in Japan was one of the lines of inquiry, and this led to an interesting set of findings about how different foreigners are classified and treated by the school system, and how they are viewed and treated by the parents of other children in the classes they attend. For parents play a big part in the education of their children in Japan, and this opened up another area of investigation, as some of the parents of the foreign children Castro-V#x00E1;zquez did research with turned out to be neither aware of (at least at first) nor able to fulfil the expectations in this respect. Three children on whom the study focused in some detail had mothers who needed to work to maintain them, and the work they did allowed them little time to attend to the scholastic needs of their children, which they could not themselves very well understand, due to their own lack of Japanese language skills.

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