This cutting edge collection considers how the Japanese language functions as a key element of Japanese soft power in Asia.

This book probes for a post-native-speakerist future and explores the nature of (English and Japanese) native-speakerism in the Japanese context, and possible grounds on which language teachers could be employed if native-speakerism is rejected (i.e., what are the language teachers of the future expected to do, and be, in practice).