Yamawaki, K. (2003). 'Foreign workers in Japan: A historical perspective', in M. Douglass & G. S. Roberts (Eds). Japan and global migration: foreign workers and the advent of a multicultural society. London; New York: Routledge. Available from Chuo Library総合政策 325.252/J35 & Mike. Looks at Korean and Chinese workers in Japan from the 1890s to the 1920s to argue that Japan has a long history of foreign workers and suggests similarities between the situation of foreign workers in the 1920s and in the 'bubble economy' of the 1980s.
Yamanaka, K. (2003), '"I will go home, but when?": Labour migration and circular diaspora formation by Japanese Brazilians in Japan', in M. Douglass & G. S. Roberts (Eds). Japan and global migration: foreign workers and the advent of a multicultural society. London; New York: Routledge. Available from Chuo Library総合政策 325.252/J35 & Mike. Includes a section on the history of labour migration from Japan to Brazil and Brazil to Japan, 1880s to 1990s.
Weiner, M. (2003). 'Japan in the age of migration', in M. Douglass & G. S. Roberts (Eds). Japan and global migration: foreign workers and the advent of a multicultural society. London; New York: Routledge. Available from Chuo Library総合政策325.252/J35 & Mike. Includes a section on Korean and Chinese workers who entered Japan during the colonial period.
Vaisihth, A. (1997). 'A model minority: The Chinese community in Japan', in M. Weiner (Ed). Japan's minorities: the illusion of homogeneity. 1st Edition. London: Routledge. Available from: Chuo Library 総合政策 301.45/J35 & Mike. Looks at the history of Chinese immigration to Japan from the first half of the 19th century to the early 1990s, and at Japanese attitudes to China and China immigrants.
Taira, K. (1997). 'Troubled national identity: The Ryukyuans/Okinawans', in M. Weiner (Ed). (1997). Japan's minorities: the illusion of homogeneity. 1st Edition. London: Routledge. Available from: Chuo Library 総合政策 301.45/J35 & Mike. Looks at debates about Okinawan identity and nationalism, and at the history of the Ryukyu islands and people, and their relations with Japan and China, from ancient times to the present.