PREFACE -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- ABBREVIATIONS -- LIST OF TABLES AND FIGURES -- CHAPTER ONE GLOBAL MIGRATION AND SOJOURNER PRESENCE -- 1.1 Japanese Sojourners Presence -- 1.2 Changes in Public Consciousness and Options for Emigration -- 1.3 Return Migratory Movements from Australia -- 1.4 Sojourners in Migratory Movements -- CHAPTER TWO THE STUDY AND CONCEPTUALISATION OF THE SOJOURNER -- 2.1 Sociological Discussion on the Sojourner -- 2.2 Basic Categories for this Research Project -- 2.3 Patterns of Residency in Migration Studies -- CHAPTER THREE JAPANESE PEOPLE OVERSEAS: AN AUSTRALIAN CASE-STUDY -- 3.1 Characteristics of Japanese Visitors: An Overview -- 3.2 Growing Interaction in the 1980s -- 3.3 Permanent and Temporary Japanese Residents -- 3.4 Arrivals and Departures -- CHAPTER FOUR A PROFILE OF JAPANESE RESIDENCY IN MAJOR CITIES -- 4.1 Japanese-Population Distribution -- 4.2 Motivations for Coming to Stay -- 4.3 Plans and Intentions of Staying Permanently/Temporarily -- 4.4 Residential Preferences and Information-Dissemination -- CHAPTER FIVE JAPANESE SCHOOLS AMONG JAPANESE ETHNIC ORGANISATIONS -- 5.1 Japanese Schools Overseas -- 5.2 Japanese Clubs and Schools in Melbourne -- 5.3 Sojourner-Oriented Characteristics and Growing Diversity -- CHAPTER SIX THE DISTINCTIVE FEATURES OF SOJOURNERS AND THEIR COMMUNITIES -- 6.1 Refining the Sojourner Concept -- 6.2 Individual Emigration -- 6.3 Sojourner Community -- APPENDIX -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX.