This book is a timely and invaluable addition to the descriptive research on community-based efforts to provide Japanese-language instruction to foreign residents. The contributors, from scholars to on-the-ground actors, lucidly make the case for moving past the ad hoc to a language education policy that is more coherent and immigrant-centered. English readers will have at hand a work with a solid range of detailed, nuanced perspectives that discuss the missteps, challenges, and promises of this key facet of Japan's emergent multiculturalism. -- Aoi Tsuda, University of Notre Dame This volumethe outcome of longstanding engaged scholarshipnot only critically examines policy but is deeply committed to practice and gives voice to a whole range of actors involved, including immigrants themselves. -- Goro Christoph Kimura, Sophia University
