Takeshi Hamano

• Doctor of Philosophy
• Professor at The University of Kitakyushu

When Japan signed the Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction, the government enacted a new act to deal with international parental child abduction according to the Convention in the same year. The Ministries of Justice and Foreign Affairs were immediately in charge of making a draft Bill. Once the government and resp...

Japan's principle of granting sole child custody after divorce has been challenged by both the public and intellectuals. The country's ratification of the Hague Child Abduction Convention in 2014 and the Ministry of Justice's subsequent statement in 2019 regarding a possible inclusion of joint custody into the future family law are expected to lead...

Based on a large‐scale survey conducted with parents from Japanese language schools in Sydney in 2015, this paper aims to review multiple dimensions of social cohesion in the Japanese ethnic community in Australia. Looking at several indices such as economic, political, and cultural integration, the paper describes the social profile of the Japanes...

Globalisation is a phenomenon that dominates the defining spirit (zeitgeist) of our historical time. The article revisits Popper?s critique of the methodology of the social sciences in the light of contemporary theories of globalisation. His standpoint contributes to the establishment of new arguments in the current debate between the pros and cons...

Inquiring into the reasons why these Japanese women left Japan and consequently became marriage migrants in Australia. this chapter investigates the ways in which they, for better or worse, perceive their Australian life under the geographic conditions referred to previously..

Through reviewing several key findings discussed previous chapters, this final chapter summerises the transformation of the social characteristics of Japanese women’s marriage migration to Australia, along with Japanese migration in the last three decades.

This chapter introduces the historical background of Japanese immigration to (colonial) Australia until today. Although the Japanese migration to Australia experienced a complete stop due to WWII and Pacific War, there is a long historical relationship between Japan and Australia going back to the 19th century. This historical snapshot shows how th...

As an individual migrant who has a local partner on whom they are initially dependent, this chapter argues that Japanese women of marriage migrants seldom see their personal interests reflected in residential choices. Japanese population is growing more in the outer suburbs than in the central region in Greater Sydney, which also reflects the fact...

This chapter investigates the socio-cultural characteristics of Japanese migrants living in Australia. In settler societies (Stasiulis & Yuval-Davis eds. in Unsettling settler societies: Articulations, gender, ethnicity and class. SAGE, London, 1995) such as Australia, it is quite popular with migrants to organise their own ethnic communities and o...

This book is a study of contemporary Japanese women settled in Australia as a consequence of marrying an Australian resident.

This chapter explores the ways in which Japanese marriage migrants remould a particular gender identity in their Australian life. In particular, I focus on the way in which these women re-contextualise their (imagined) Japanese femininity by representing a new interpretation and remoulding of their self in Australia. To account for this, the chapte...

This chapter attempts to theorise the rise of a new type of international migrants in Japanese society, considering its rapid social change in several decades after Pacific War.

This paper aims to investigate how socio-cultural normative codes of Japan’s Civil Code are challenged by the introduction of alternative legal ideas of an international convention. In 2014, while Japan signed the Hague Child Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction, the government eventually implemented new acts to realize...

This chapter is to examine the trajectory of the representation of gender identity and consumer practices in Japan in the 1980s and 1990s as illustrated by the changes seen in an important element of popular culture: manga. Reviewing the manga of Kyoko Okazaki (born in 1963), this chapter discusses how the gender identity of young Japanese women wa...

This book investigates the experience of Japanese women who have immigrated to Australia through marriage to a local partner. Based on long-term participant observations gathered with a Japanese ethnic association in Sydney, and on in-depth interviews with the association’s members, it examines the ways in which the women remould themselves in Aust...

This paper explores the extent to which new family norms are developing in Japan with regard to joint parenting in post-divorce families. This issue involves overlapping contexts (i.e., international child-rights awareness and the adversity of state ideology as represented by national concern over family well-being). In 2014, Japan became involved...

This paper aims to explore conflicting rights claims of cross-national family members. Based on multinational case studies of recent international parental child abductions involving Japan and the US, it discusses the ways in which the realization of the basic human rights of each party of a cross-national family (father, migrant mother and child)...

Based on fieldwork in Sydney, Australia, this paper discusses the ways in which Japanese women marriage migrants remold their gender identity in the process of settlement. Among recent Japanese migrants to Australia, women migrants, i.e., those who migrated to Australia on account of their marriage to an Australian resident or citizen, constitute t...