The academic study of Japanese immigrants and their descendants living abroad has tended to focus on a few aspects, particularly racial discrimination, but social scientists here look at ethnic identity in the daily struggles for social, cultural, and/or economic survival by Japanese nationals abroad and foreign nationals in Japan. Among their topics are transnational migrants in post-World War II global society, reforming Japanese cultural values in a Brazilian forest, the Jap̤n lineage in Spain, the transnational networking of people of Japanese descent, Latino transnational culture and identity in greater Tokyo, the Shinjuku transformations of a transpacific Japanese American family, and young Japanese women in Indonesia as an illustration of cross-cultural marriage in the global age. Annotation 2010 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
