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Part 1 Introduction: culture and diversity in Japan, Gaynor Macdonaldand John C. Maher. Part 2 Historical and cultural frameworks: nationalism andcultural pluralism in modern Japan - Soetsu Yanagi and the Mingei Movement,M. William Steele; the sociology of ethnocentrism in Japan, HideichiroNakano; the Ainu - construction of an image, Richard Siddle; the right stuff- towards environmental liguistics, John C. Maher and Charles Li. Part 3Other voices - Ainu, Korean and people of the Buraku: deprivation andresistance - Ainu movements in modern Japan, Richard Siddle; my heritage ofpride and struggle, Kyoko Kitahara; maintaining culture and language -Koreans in Osaka, John C. Maher and Yumiko Kawanishi; Ikuno-ku, Osaka -centre of hope and struggle, Yong Yo Yi; the confidence to live! experiencingthe Buraku literation movement, Ryuichi Kariya. Part 4 Other voices -families, signs and differences: woman as outsider - sexuality, society andthe familial mind, Aya Nishizono-Maher et al; the right to speak - languagemaintenance in Japan, Kuyoko Yashiro; a non-Japanese Japanese - on being areturnee, Akiko Kowatari; the deaf and their language - progress towardsequality, Noboyuki Honna. Part 5 Afterword: the politics of diversity in thenation-state, Gaynor Macdonald.