Dear Colleagues,

Please allow me to remind of the next session in the Toshiba International Foundation funded project "Ethnic Communities Within Global Japanese Studies: Encountering Diversity in a Multi-Ethnic, Multi-Cultural Japan" an International Collaborative Research-Networking Talk Series at Ritsumeikan University. The events in this series will be conducted in a hybrid format.

In Japan's towns and cities ethnic businesses are becoming increasingly visible, demonstrating a vibrant economic and social interchange, agency, and mobility. This session presents a historical overview of old-comer ethnic migrant communities to new-comer business entrepreneurship and ventures. The talks give a rare inner glimpse of ethnic community connections, resources, inter-ethnic relationships, and gender dynamics within the pursuit of economic and social mobility.

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