ABSTRACT
This chapter examines that how the modernist discourse of internationalization has been resisted, defied, reinforced, or reproduced within the Contemporary Period of globalization in Japan. It also provides some vivid examples of such processes through the exploration of languages and identities in a mobile world. For example, the section on cultural transition explored how national identity has absorbed the shift from 'hard power' to 'soft power' and how it has affected the Japan's positioning globally and on the policy level, as well as more locally in the Japanese language educational domain, particularly in the identities of Japanese language teachers and learners. The final three chapters of the volume investigated the transition in language pedagogy from various perspectives. First, it investigates the impact that personal and institutional levels of language-learning contexts on the identity negotiation of heritage learners of Japanese in Australia. Then it introduced a proposal for a humanistic approach to language education in multicultural contexts in tertiary education sectors.
