Japanese New York

"New York City, one of the world's most vibrant and creative cities, is also home to one of the largest overseas Japanese populations in the world. Japanese New York offers an intimate, ethnographic portrait of these creative Japanese migrants living and working in NYC. It is both a story about Japan and a way of examining Japan from beyond its borders. It contributes to international migration studies, to the study of contemporary Japanese culture and societuy, and to the study of Japanese youth, while shedding light on what it means to be a creative migrant worker in the global city today"--Page [4] of cover.