Transnational Migration in East Asia: Japan in Comparative Focus

Abstract

This special two-day conference on migration, held May 31-June 1, 2007, at Japan's National Museum of Ethnology (Minpaku) in Osaka, was one of the first and most comprehensive meetings of scholars on the full dimensions and implications of migration both to and from Japan. It was also a valuable opportunity to reconsider international migration from an East Asian vantage point ? and especially convenient for non-Japanese since the papers were written in English.l