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Books and Monographs
Tsuneyoshi, R., Okano, K.H., and S. Boocock (eds.) (contracted) Minorities and Multiculturalism in Japanese Education. London: Routledge.

Okano, K.(2009) Young women in Japan: Transitions to adulthood. London: Routledge.

Okano, K. (ed.) (2006) Language and schools in Asia: Globalisation and local forces. A special issue of Language and Education. Clevedon, Avon, Multilingual Matters.

Okano, K. (with M. Tsuchiya) (2004) Pendidikan Moden Jepun : Ketaksamaan dan Kepelbagaian (Education in contemporary Japan : Inequality and diversity) Kuala Lumpur, Institut Terjemaha Negara Malaysia Berhad (Malaysian National Institute of Translation), pp.412. Reprint 2007, 2009.

Okano, K. (with M. Tsuchiya) (1999) Education in Contemporary Japan: Inequality and Diversity, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, pp.270.

Okano, K. (1995) 'Justice principles in job distribution to Japanese youth', Asian Studies Research Papers No.6. La Trobe University.

Okano, K. (1993a) School to work transition in Japan: An ethnographic study. Clevedon, Avon and Philladeliphia: Multilingual Matters, pp.286.


Journal Articles

Okano, K. (2008) 'Youth Deviance and Adult Control', Electronic Journal of Contemporary Japanese Studies Vol.2. Review of R.S. Yoder (2004) Youth Deviance in Japan: Class reproduction of non-conformity.

Okano, K.H. (2006) The global-local interface in multicultural policies in Japan. Comparative Education 42(4): 1-19.
http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/content~content=a762377286~db=all~order=page

Okano, K. (2006) 'Introduction: Globalisation and local forces'. Language and schools in Asia: Globalisation and local forces, Language and Education, a special issue. Clevedon, Avon, Multilingual Matters.

Okano, K. (2006) 'The impact of immigrants on long-lasting ethnic minorities in Japanese schools: Globalisation from below'. Language and schools in Asia: Globalisation and local forces, Language and Education, a special issue. Clevedon, Avon, Multilingual Matters.

kano, K. (2004) 'Japanese working class girls in their first employment: Transition to adulthood'. Journal of Education and Work, 17(4): 421-439.
http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/content~content=a713672160~db=all~order=page

Okano, K. (2004) 'A minority's changing relationship with schools: Koreans in Japan', International Review of Education, 49(6): 1-22.

Okano, K. (2000b) 'Social justice and job distribution to youth in Japan: Class, minority and gender', International Review of Education, 46(6): 545-565.

Okano, K. (1997) 'Divergent paths: Third-generation Korean high schoolers in Japan', Anthropology and Education Quarterly, 28(4): 524-549.

Okano, K. (1995a) 'Rational decision making and school-based job referrals for high school students in Japan', Sociology of Education, 68(1): 31-47.

Okano, K. (1995b) 'Habitus and intra-class differentiation: Non-university bound students in Japan', International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education, 8(4): 357-369.

Okano, K. (1987) 'Teacher education policy proposals for the 1980s in the north and south of the Pacific: Australia and Japan', South Pacific Journal of Teacher Education, 15(1): 64-80.

Book Chapters

Okano K. and Tsuneyoshi, R. (forthcoming) 'Introduction', in R. Tsuneyoshi, R., K. Okano, and S. Boocock (eds) Minorities and Multiculturalism in Japanese Education. London: Routledge.

Okano, K. (forthcoming) 'Overview of long-existing minorities and education', in R. Tsuneyoshi, R., K. Okano, and S. Boocock (eds) Minorities and Multiculturalism in Japanese Education. London: Routledge.

Okano, K. (forthcoming) 'Ethnic Koreans in Japanese schools: Shifting boundaries and collaboration with other groups', in R. Tsuneyoshi, K. Okano, and S. Boocock (eds) Minorities and Multiculturalism in Japanese Education. London: Routledge.

Okano, K. (forthcoming) 'Adaptive learning at the global periphery: Cultural overview of education in Japanese civilization', in Yong Zhao et al. (eds) The Handbook of Asian Education: A cultural perspective. New Jersey: Lawrence Erlbaum.

Okano, K. (2009) 'School culture', in Yoshio Sugimoto (ed.) The Cambridge Companion to Modern Japanese Culture. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp.92-112. ISBN 9780521880473
http://www.cambridge.org/uk/catalogue/catalogue.asp?isbn=9780521880473

Okano, K. (2008) 'Education reforms in Japan: Neo-liberal, Neo-conservative, and “progressive education” directions', in David Hill (ed.) The rich world and the impoverishment of education (Volume 4 of Global Neo-liberalism and education and its consequences). New York: Routledge.
http://www.routledgeeducation.com/books/The-Rich-World-and-the-Impoverishment-of-Education-isbn9780415957755

Okano, K. (2007) 'Career adaptability: Transition from school to work in non-college bound adolescents in Japan', in Vladimir Skorikov and Wendy Patton (eds) Career development in childhood and adolescence, pp.295-311, Rotterdam: Sensepublishers.

Okano, K. (2005) 'Minoriti to jenda no setten', in Waseda Daigaku Osutoraria Kenkyusho (ed.) Osutoraria no mainoriti kenkyu. Tokyo, Oseania Shuppansha, pp.28-46.

Okano, K. (with M. Tsuchiya) (2000a) 'Students' experience of schooling: Minorities in Japan', in S. Ball, S. (ed.) Sociology of Education: Major Themes, London, Routledge, pp.1030-1065.

Okano, K. (1998) 'Justice principles in job distribution to Japanese youth', in T. Rohlen and C. Bjork (eds) Education and Training in Japan, Vol.3., London, Routledge, pp.77-123.

Okano, K. (1994a) '"Modern" Japan and social identity: minority youth in school to work transition', in A. Gomes (ed.) Modernity and Identity: Asian illustrations, Melbourne, La Trobe University Press, pp.206-231.

Okano, K. (1993b) 'Facilitating transition from school to work in Japan', in D. Corson and S.B. Lawton, S.B. (eds) Education for Work, Toronto, The Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, pp.33-44.

Okano, K. (1992) 'State care and control in Japan: the employment guidance and referral process for school leavers', in P. Close (ed.) The State and Caring, London, Macmillan, pp.162-185.


Book Reviews
Okano, K.H. (2007) Review of C. Bjork (2005) 'Indonesian Education: Teachers, schools and central bureaucracy', International Review of Education 53: 228-230.

Platt, Brian (2006) 'Burning and Building: Schooling and State formation in Japan, 1750-1890' (by Brian Platt), Asian Studies Review.

White, Merry (2004) 'Perfectly Japanese: Making Families in an Era of Upheaval', Japanese Studies, 23(4): 352-4.

Noguchi, M.G. and Fotos, S. (eds) (2004) 'Studies in Japanese Bilingualism', Language and Education: An International Journal, 18(2): 185-187.

Ryang, S. (2003) 'North Koreans in Japan: Language, ideology and identity', American Ethnologist, 29(4): 1008-1009.

Miller, A. and Kanazawa, S. (2002) 'Order by Accident', Journal of Asian Studies, 61(4): 1381-1383.

Le Tendre, G. (2001) 'Learning to be adolescent: Growing up in US and Japanese middle schools', Journal of Japanese Studies, 29(2): 473-7.

Nagatani, K. and Edgington, D. (eds) (2000) 'Japan and the West: The Perception Gap', Pacific Affairs, 72(4): 587-588.

Worodoff, J. (1999) 'The Japanese Social Crisis', Journal of Intercultural Studies, 20(1): 114-116.

Sato, I. (1999) 'Kamikaze Biker: Parody and Anomy in Affluent Japan', Asian Studies Review, 23: 514-516.

Goldstein-Gidoni, O. (1998) 'Packaged Japaneseness: Weddings, Business and Brides', Pacific Affairs, 71(3): 426-428.

(1994b) 'Education Reform in Japan: A Case of Immobilist Politics', Asian Studies Review, 18, 1, 222-223.

(1992) 'Education and examination in modern Japan', Asian Studies Review, 16(2): 293-295.

Davies, D. (1990) 'School to work: the EHW factor, New Zealand Sociology, 5(1): 75-79.


Others

Okano, K. (2004) 'Teikoku to Osutoraria no kyôikushatachi', Kaihô Kyôiku Kenkyûkai Nenpô, pp.66-68.

Okano, K. (1993) 'Korean high schoolers in contemporary Japan: A legacy of dominance', in Christine Fox (ed.) Culture, Dominance and Control: Indigenous peoples, minorities and education, Wollongong, Wollongong University Press, pp.21-31.

Okano, K. (1992) From School to Work in Japan. Set: Research Information for Teachers. No.1, Item 13. Hawthorn, Victoria and Wellington, Australian Council for Educational Research and New Zealand Council for Educational Research.

Okano, K. and Claridge, R.F.C. (1992) From School or University to Employment: The Japanese Way. New Zealand Centre for Japanese Studies Working Paper No.4. Palmerston North, New Zealand Centre for Japanese Studies.

Okano, K. (1990) 'Different responses to school resources', in Roger Peddie (ed.) Nationhood, Internationalism and Education, Auckland, Auckland University, pp.74-91.

Conferences
(2008) 'Interactions amongst ethnic minority groups in schooling in Japan: the global-local interface'. Proceedings of the Second Afrasian International Symposium.

(2008) 'Globalisation and Education Reforms in Japan: Beyond the national initiatives'. The 17th Biennial Conference of the Asian Studies Association of Australia.

(2007) 'The Global-National-Local Interface Affecting Minority Languages in Education: the Cases of Japan and Australia'. The International Conference on Applied Linguistics, National Chiqyi University, Taiwan.

(2007) 'Interactions amongst ethnic minority groups in schooling in Japan: the global-local interface'. Changing identities and networks in the globalising world. The proceedings of the symposium of the Afrasian Centre for Peace and Development Studies, Ryukoku University. Held at Monash University on 23rd February 2007.

(2006) 'The global-national-local interface affecting minority languages in education: the case of Japan'. The National Chiayi university Inquiry of Applied Linguistics. The International Conference on Applied Linguistics, National Chiayi University, Taiwan, 2-3 April 2006 (as a plenary speaker).

(2005) 'Good practices in teaching students decision making skills for adulthood: Contested discourses and students’ subjective views'. The Australia-New Zealand Comparative and International Education Society Annual Conference, Coffs Harbour, December.

(2004) 'The dialectic of globalisation and local activism: Multicultural education policies in Japan'. The Australia-New Zealand Comparative and International Education Society Annual Conference, Australian Catholic University , Melbourne, December.

(2003) 'Becoming and adult, and negotiating class-gender-ethnic identity in Japan: The 10 years since leaving school'. The Australia-New Zealand Association of Research in Education Annual Conference. Auckland University. The Proceedings of the joint conference of the New Zealand Association for Research in Education and the Australian Association for Research in Education, Auckland University, New Zealand. CD ROM.

(2003) 'The impact of new diversity on long-existing minorities'. The International Conference on Language, Education and Diversity, Hamilton, Waikato University, Hamilton, New Zealand.

(2001) 'Diversity and inequality in the schooling experience: Third generation Koreans in Japan'. The Association of Asian Studies Annual Meeting. Chicago.

(1999) 'Forging adult identities in Japan'. The Japanese Studies Association of Australia Conference, Rockhampton.

(1994) 'Access and equity in education and work: Koreans in "multicultural" Japan', in Education for Cultural Democracy, the conference proceedings Adelaide conference.

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