Download or read book Language and Education in Japan written by Y. Kanno and published by Springer. This book was released on 2008-01-17 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first critical ethnography of bilingual education in Japan. Based on fieldwork at five different schools, this examines the role of schools in the unequal distribution of bilingualism as cultural capital. It argues that schooling gives children unequal access to bilingualism thus socializing them into different futures.