Despite its monolingual self-image, Japan is multilingual and
growing more so due to indigenous minority language revitalization
and as an effect of migration. Besides Japan's autochthonous
languages such as the Ainu and Ryukyuan languages, there are more
than 75,000 immigrant children in the Japanese public education
system alone who came to Japan in the 1980s and who speak more than
a hundred different languages. Added to this growing linguistic
diversity, the importance of English as the language of
international communication in business and science especially is
hotly debated. This book analyses how this linguistic diversity,
and indeed recognition of this phenomenon, presents a wide range of
sociolinguistic challenges and opportunities in fundamental
institutions such as schools, in cultural patterns and in social
behaviours and attitudes. This topic is an important one as Japan
fights to re-establish itself in the new world order and will be of
interest to all those who are concerned language change, language
versus dialect, the effect of modern technology on language usage,
and the way national and social problems are always reflected
through the prism of language.
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