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Remaking Japan through Transnational Encounters, Difference, and Struggles for Social Equality - Working Skin: Making Leather, Making a Multicultural Japan. By Joseph D. Hankins . Oakland: University of California Press, 2014. xxii, 277 pp. ISBN: 9780520283299 (paper, also available in cloth and as e-book). - Embracing Differences: Transnational Cultural Flows between Japan and the United States. By Iris-Aya Laemmerhirt . Bielefeld: Transcript Verlag, 2013. 262 pp. ISBN: 9783837626001 (paper). - New Policies for New Residents: Immigrants, Advocacy, and Governance in Japan and Beyond. By Deborah J. Milly . Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 2014. 280 pp. ISBN: 9780801452222 (cloth). - Reinventing Citizenship: Black Los Angeles, Korean Kawasaki, and Community Participation. By Kazuyo Tsuchiya . Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2014. viii, 273 pp. ISBN: 9780816681112 (cloth, also available in paper and as e-book).
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Working Skin: Making Leather, Making a Multicultural Japan. By Joseph D. Hankins . Oakland: University of California Press, 2014. xxii, 277 pp. ISBN: 9780520283299 (paper, also available in cloth and as e-book).
Embracing Differences: Transnational Cultural Flows between Japan and the United States. By Iris-Aya Laemmerhirt . Bielefeld: Transcript Verlag, 2013. 262 pp. ISBN: 9783837626001 (paper).
New Policies for New Residents: Immigrants, Advocacy, and Governance in Japan and Beyond. By Deborah J. Milly . Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 2014. 280 pp. ISBN: 9780801452222 (cloth).
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