Japan as a multicultural and multilingual country.

She concludes that for successful bilingualism such strategies as one person/one language approach and home language/community language systems may not be as important as it has been suggested in earlier research. "Codeswitching by Japan's unrecognised bilinguals: Japanese university students' use of their native language as a learning strategy" by Sandra Fotos explores how Japanese learners of English use code-switching as a learning strategy. R. Michael Bostwick evaluates the effect of the first immersion programme in Japan in "Bilingual education of children in Japan: year four of a partial immersion programme". [Extracted from the article]