"Japan's official efforts at internationalization have been painful
to witness. . . . The government's JET program is easily the most
ambitious and its history and on-the-ground problems offer
significant insights into Japan's struggle to open up to the
outside. David McConnell's book provides a most interesting
analysis of why this process has been so complex and difficult. It
tells us much about Japanese society and education at this critical
point in time."--Thomas P. Rohlen, author of "For Harmony and
Strength
"In this superb and insightful book, David McConnell explores
perhaps the greatest (certainly the biggest) education program in
humankind's history, offering patient, balanced analysis of its
workings, problems, and accomplishments. McConnell's confucian
equanimity and multifaceted perspectives lend the book a depth
seldom found in contemporary writing on Japan."--Robert Juppe,
First ALT Advisor for the JET Program
"This is a very astute, thorough, and personal account of the
JET program as a case study of how a program can both change a
system and provoke defenses against any change. With his fine
ethnographic and analytic material, McConnell reveals the
faultlines of "internationalization" in Japan. This is a great
contribution to the study of organizations, marginality, and shifts
in global and national identity."--Merry White, author of the
forthcoming "Japanese Families: It Takes a Nation
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