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Foreword Florian Coulmas  Preface  1. Modern and late modern perspectives on language life in Japan Patrick Heinrich and Christian Galan  2. Language rights in Japan: what is it good for? Goro Christoph Kimura  3. Difficulties of establishing heritage language education in Uchinaa Patrick Heinrich  4. The emerging borderless community in the local radio in Uchinaa  Yuko Sugita  5. Out of this world, in this world, or both? The Japanese school at the threshold Christian Galan  6. Japan’s literacy myth and its social functions Hitoshi Yamashita  7. Standardization and de-standardization processes in spoken Japanese  Fumio Inoue  8. Constraints on language use in public broadcasting Takehiro Shioda  9. Technology and writing system in Japan  Nanette Gottlieb  10. Modernity rewritten: linguistic landscaping in Tokyo  Peter Backhaus  11. Language, power and politeness in business meetings in Japan Hiromasa Tanaka and Aya Sugiyama  12. Japanese as an international language  Tessa Carroll  13. Prospects and prerequisites for a Japanese third way policy Takao Katsuragi  Bibliography