Brings together Australian and Japanese scholars to examine the ways in which their two very different societies have dealt with challenges to their cultural and institutional fabric, and social cohesion associated arising from the acceleration of global interdependence during recent decades. From the Contents: 5. Immigration Challenges in Japan: How has Japanese Society Coped with Immigration? (Hirohisa Takenoshita); 10. Intermarriage and Japanese Identity (Shuko Takeshita).