(Below is a list of writings which are, for the most part, freely available on the web. Click the red year on the left to read the full text of the article or paper)
2024b 'Japan'a Multiculturalism Fails to Keep Pace with Rising Migration'. East Asia Forum 16:1 (January-March), pp.23-26
2022 'COVID-19 Border Policies Strengthen Japan's Insular Mindset'. East Asia Forum (October 12)
2021 'The Impact of COVID-19 on Foreign
Residents in “No Immigration” Japan: Structural Inequity, Japanese-style
Multiculturalism, and Diminishing Social Capital.' IRiS Working Papers Series
(Birmingham: Institute for Research into Superdiversity) (48), December. pp.1-22 [This was also presented on October 29th at the Institute of Asian Migrations and the Institute of Asia-Pacific Studies at Waseda University (online). The recording can be viewed here].
2016b 'Multicultural
Japan still far off despite "Consideration"'. East Asia Forum
Quarterly 8:3 (Sept. ), pp.32-33.
2016a '“Killing
the Practice of Whale Hunting is the same as Killing the Japanese
People”: Identity, National Pride, and Nationalism in Japan’s Resistance
to International Pressure to Curb Whaling'. Japan Focus 14 (8:2)
(April 15).
2015 'Silencing the Voices in
Tokyo’s First Ever Local Referendum. Is Japanese Civil Society Really
Flourishing?'. Electronic Journal of Contemporary Japanese Studies
15:1 (April).
2014b 'Japan’s ‘no immigration principle’
looking as solid as ever'. Japan Times (June 19).
2014a 'Can immigration reform really save Japan?'. East Asia Forum
(June 5).
2013b 'Democracy,
interrupted: How local voices were silenced in Tokyo’s first referendum'. Japan
Times (June 18).
2013a 'Ambivalent
Japan turns on its ‘insular’ youth: System discourages overseas study but
students get blame'. Japan Times (May
21).
2011b 'Media
Grasp for Words to Sum up Post-3/11 Grit'. Japan Times (June
21).
2011a 'Students
Choose Failure over Uncertainty'. Japan Times (April 19).
2010c 'Appeals
to culture, tradition ignore the historical facts: Small-scale hunts of past
don't justify trips into Australia's backyard'. Japan Times (Aug.
17).
2010b 'Higher
education: opening up or closing in? Contradictory reform goals could scotch
chances of success'. Japan Times (March 23).
2010a 'The
‘Illusion’ of Homogeneous Japan and National Character: Discourse as a Tool to
Transcend the ‘Myth’ vs. ‘Reality’ Binary'. Japan Focus (March 1).
2009 'Immigration
showing signs of ninjo:
More humane system may be on the horizon'. Japan Times (October 27).
2008c 'Celebrating
‘Multicultural Japan’: Writings on ‘Minorities’ and the Discourse on
‘Difference’'. Electronic Journal of Contemporary Japanese Studies (Dec.
10).
2008b 'Soft
Power is Key to Japan Re-shaping its Identity Abroad', Japan Times
(Sept. 2).
2008a 'The
Lowest Form of Flattery?'. Japan Times (March 11).
2007c '
‘Multicultural’ Japan Remains a Pipe Dream', Japan Times
(March 27).
2007b 'Multicultural
Japan? Discourse and the ‘Myth’ of Homogeneity', Japan Focus
(March 24).
2007a '
‘Loss’ and ‘Recovery’ of Voice among Korean International Marriage Migrants', Electronic Journal of
Contemporary Japanese Studies (February 2).
2004 'Maintaining
Identities: Discourses of Homogeneity in a Rapidly Globalising Japan'. Electronic
Journal of Contemporary Japanese Studies (April 19).