This book is the first work to comprehensively investigate the enclaves of non-Japanese
residents in Japan. In a comparative study it convincingly examines eight enclaves of five
nationalities (Chinese Korean Filipino Brazilian and Turkish) in twelve municipalities.
Japan now leads in terms of depopulation in countries affiliated with the Organisation for
Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD). The fact that the country has been supplementing
the decreased number of Japanese nationals with an increase in migrants who form enclaves has
attracted great attention. The temporal development and status quo of such enclaves are
important concerns of researchers policymakers and the general public. This publication is the
result of joint studies by geographers and sociologists and contributes to a more detailed
understanding of these topics. It thus represents a valuable achievement in the study of the
segregation and enclave formation of minority nationalities. The empirical validity of existing
explanatory frameworks such as spatial assimilation and heterolocalism is also discussed in a
Japanese context.
