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@article{ART003032800},
author={Kyungmin Park},
title={The Globalizing State and Inward-looking (Uchimuking) Society: Importing Cultural Diversity and a Paradox of ‘Policy of Globalizing at Home’ of Japan},
journal={Asia Review},
issn={2234-0386},
year={2023},
volume={13},
number={3},
pages={191-230}

TY - JOUR
AU - Kyungmin Park
TI - The Globalizing State and Inward-looking (Uchimuking) Society: Importing Cultural Diversity and a Paradox of ‘Policy of Globalizing at Home’ of Japan
JO - Asia Review
PY - 2023
VL - 13
IS - 3
PB - 아시아연구소
SP - 191
EP - 230
SN - 2234-0386
AB - Drawing on the concepts of diversity and transnationality, this ethnographic study examines how ‘globaliz-ing Japan’ has managed the growing cultural diversity within the society since the launch of Internationalization policy in the 1980s. I note that the recent Japanese society has been often considered to be ‘uchimuki-ing’ (inward-looking), while its government has actively pursued internationalization/globalization policies at home and abroad for more than forty years. Given that the domestic internationalization campaigns have raised public awareness of demographic and cultural diversity in Japan, ‘uchimuking Japan’ at present may seem to ironically run counter to the state’s years-long efforts for globalization. The findings indicate that the Japanese government has directly ‘invited and introduced cultural differences’ to the society via top-down internationalization programs at the state level. In addition, the Japanese government has ‘employed and arranged’ foreign migrants’ transnationality at the local level. This over-friendly top-down policy process, which in turn has been ‘arranged and delivered’ to any corner of the society, has led ordinary Japanese people to ‘consume’ diversity ‘at home’ on a daily level. It concludes that the ‘uchimuking’ inclination in this society is a sort of by-product, or side effect of internationalization/globalization policy that has been disclosed in the Japan’s trajectories of global policy in an era of globalization. Put it differently, the uchimuking phenomenon in Japan is in part an unexpected policy effect that has been constrained by cultural patterning, path-dependent policy processes, and overlooked local autonomy, which is what I finally call “a Paradox of ‘Policy of Globalizing at Home’.”
KW - Uchimuki (inward-looking);diversity (daiba-siti);transnationality;Kokusaikaa at the local level;CIRs(Coordinator for International Relations);path dependence
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Kyungmin Park. (2023). The Globalizing State and Inward-looking (Uchimuking) Society: Importing Cultural Diversity and a Paradox of ‘Policy of Globalizing at Home’ of Japan. Asia Review, 13(3), 191-230.

Kyungmin Park. 2023, "The Globalizing State and Inward-looking (Uchimuking) Society: Importing Cultural Diversity and a Paradox of ‘Policy of Globalizing at Home’ of Japan", Asia Review, vol.13, no.3 pp.191-230.

Kyungmin Park "The Globalizing State and Inward-looking (Uchimuking) Society: Importing Cultural Diversity and a Paradox of ‘Policy of Globalizing at Home’ of Japan" Asia Review 13.3 pp.191-230 (2023) : 191.

Kyungmin Park. The Globalizing State and Inward-looking (Uchimuking) Society: Importing Cultural Diversity and a Paradox of ‘Policy of Globalizing at Home’ of Japan. 2023; 13(3), 191-230.

Kyungmin Park. "The Globalizing State and Inward-looking (Uchimuking) Society: Importing Cultural Diversity and a Paradox of ‘Policy of Globalizing at Home’ of Japan" Asia Review 13, no.3 (2023) : 191-230.

Kyungmin Park. The Globalizing State and Inward-looking (Uchimuking) Society: Importing Cultural Diversity and a Paradox of ‘Policy of Globalizing at Home’ of Japan. Asia Review, 13(3), 191-230.

Kyungmin Park. The Globalizing State and Inward-looking (Uchimuking) Society: Importing Cultural Diversity and a Paradox of ‘Policy of Globalizing at Home’ of Japan. Asia Review. 2023; 13(3) 191-230.

Kyungmin Park. The Globalizing State and Inward-looking (Uchimuking) Society: Importing Cultural Diversity and a Paradox of ‘Policy of Globalizing at Home’ of Japan. 2023; 13(3), 191-230.

Kyungmin Park. "The Globalizing State and Inward-looking (Uchimuking) Society: Importing Cultural Diversity and a Paradox of ‘Policy of Globalizing at Home’ of Japan" Asia Review 13, no.3 (2023) : 191-230.