Viele der Beiträge, die in diesem Band versammelt sind, wurden im Sommersemester 2011 in der Ringvorlesung „Modernisierungsprozesse in Japan“ im Asien-Afrika-Institut der Universität Hamburg präsentiert. Die einzelnen Kapitel des Sammelbandes spiegeln die inhaltliche Vielfalt der Reihe...

In 2000 the United Nations published a study named „Replacement Migration– Is it a Solution to Declining and Ageing Populations?“ which highlightsthe effects replacement migration may have on the workforce of eight industrialcountries and two world regions. For Japan to keep up its...

Hitherto Japan’s migration policy in a nutshell read “exclusively highly skilled migration” and “exclusively temporary migration.” Faced with the enormous speed of Japan’s demographic change, however, the government has started to open up the national labor market to foreign workers....