Brings together late-1990s research on foreign workers and households from a variety of different perspectives. This influx has had a substantial impact on Japan's economic, social and political landscape. The book asks three major questions: whether the recent wave of migration constitutes a new multicultural age challenging Japan's identity as homogenous society; how foreign workers confront the many difficulties living in Japan; and how Japanese society is both resisting and accommodating the growing presence of foreign workers in their communities. This book contains up-to-date data on...