Abstract
Like many global north countries, Japan has a rapidly aging and declining population. In order to maintain the size of its workforce as well as remain globally competitive, Japan needs to attract h...
Highlights
Like many other global north countries, Japan has a rapidly aging and declining population
This paper focuses on two items on the list: Japanese-style human resource management (HRM) and the lack of use of English
This paper identifies the predominance of Japanese-style HRM and lack of use of English as further manifestations of Japanese exclusionism and discusses them as such
Summary
Like many other global north countries, Japan has a rapidly aging and declining population. In the 2015 Population Census (Statistics Bureau of Japan, 2016), the total population stood at 126,933,000, which was 162,000 down from the previous year. The total population had been decreasing for the sixth year in a row. In 2016, the aged population (65 and above) was 34.59 million, constituting 27.3 percent of the total population and a record. Liang Morita trained in Sociolinguistics in Britain. Upon completion of her studies, she taught in Thailand and worked on the Thai Chinese community. She has been living in Japan since 2003. She teaches in Nagoya University and her research interests include English in Japan, immigration, discrimination, and Japanese exclusionism, among others
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