Language, citizenship, and identity in Japan / Nanette Gottlieb -- After homogeneity: maintaining unity in a linguistically diversifying Japan / Patrick Heinrich -- It's better if they speak broken Japanese?: Language as a pathway or an obstacle to citizenship in Japan? / Chris Burgess -- Languages and citizenship in education: Migrant languages in government schools / Kaori H. Okano -- Children Crossing Borders and their citizenship in Japan / Ikuo Kawakami -- Remedial language education and citizenship: Examining the JSL classroom as an ethnic project / Robert Moorehead -- Gender capital and the educated citizen: Japanese mothers speaking of language acquisition and education for foreign children / Genaro Castro-Vezquez -- Cultural citizenship and the hierarchy of foreign languages: Japanese Brazilians' views on the status of English and Portuguese in Japan / Ernani Oda -- -- Language rights of non-Japanese defendants in Japanese criminal courts / Ikuko Nakane -- English is my home: Citizenship, language, and identity in the Ogasawara Islands / David Chapman and Daniel Long -- Multilingual or Easy Japanese? Promoting citizenship via local government websites / Tessa Carroll.