1. 7) Literature List
2. 6) Discussion and Conclusions
2.1. Discussion
2.1.1. Is Japanesere society collectivist?
2.2. Conclusions
3. 2A) Historic Chapter A (pre-1945)
3.1. Pre Tokugawa Period
3.2. Tokugawa Period
3.3. Meiji Period
3.4. Meiji Accounts of Islamic World
3.5. Pan-Asianism & Pan-Islamism: mutual interests
3.6. Pan-Islamism
3.7. Pan-Asianism
3.8. Islamic admiration for / presence in Japan
3.9. Taisho Period
3.10. Manchuria 1932->
3.11. 1938 Mosque
3.12. 1942 Okawa Shumei
3.13. 1942 Invasion Dutch Indies
3.14. Summary of pre-1945
4. 3A) Historical Ideological Chapter A: Tokugawa/Meiji
4.1. Geographical distance VS Time
4.2. Ka-i, assimilation. Identity flux of Ainu/Rykyu
4.3. Barbarians
4.4. Otherness of foreigners emphasized: 1600s/1700s/1800s
5. 4) Status quo of immigrant situation in Japan
5.1. Assimilation: top-down process of domestic imperialism, or slow down-top process?
5.2. Assimilation pressure
5.2.1. Integration as median
5.2.2. Increasing ties to Home country
5.3. Long-Distance Nationalism and Transnational identities
5.4. Today's reality for foreign workers, and Muslims especially
5.4.1. Muslims in Japan today
5.4.1.1. Mosques
5.4.1.2. Difficulties
5.4.2. Challenges for foreigners - seperate worlds
5.4.3. Working conditions for foreigners
5.4.4. Images of Muslims
5.4.4.1. Muslim image A: "terrorist"
5.4.4.2. image B: "illegal"
5.4.4.3. image C: "violent"
5.4.4.4. image D: "uncivilized"/"barbarian"
5.4.5. Physical characteristics / "Barbarians" VS religion
5.4.6. More on beards + orientalism
5.4.7. Over-emphasis on foreigners’ ’otherness’
5.4.8. Representations of foreigners in three different television shows
5.4.9. linking contemporary TV shows to traditional ideological currents
5.4.10. bad 'PR'
5.4.11. Muslims' images of themselves
6. 5) Multiculturalism
6.1. Genesis of Multiculturalism
6.2. Criticism of multiculturalism
6.3. Gastarbeiter Norway/Germany
6.4. Multiculturalism and capitalism
6.5. Comparison mulitculturalism in different models
6.5.1. USA
6.5.2. Canada and Australia
6.5.3. Europe
6.5.4. South Korea / Japan
6.5.5. Problematic aspects of applying 'multiculturalism' theory to Japan
6.5.6. Going against the hegemonic discourse: Is Japan really ‘anti Multiculturalism’ / ‘ideology of assimilation’?
6.5.6.1. pro-multiculturalism movements/scholars/opinion leaders
6.5.6.2. anti-multiculturalism movements! (“chaos!”, “masatsu/friction!”)
7. 1B) Introduction to Immigrants in Japan
7.1. Introduction to the topic of Japan and Immigration / multiculturalism
7.1.1. Number of foreigners. Oldcomers and newcomers
7.1.2. Types of immigrants
7.2. Statistics on Muslims in Japan today
7.3. Countries of origin, age and employment
7.4. Gender
7.5. Illegal overstayers
7.6. End of introduction, build up to historic chapter
8. 1A) Formal Thesis Introduction
8.1. Motivation
8.1.1. Introduction: koureika/shoushika
8.1.2. Motivation
8.2. Theory, Methodology, Definitions
8.2.1. Culture
8.2.2. Ethnicity
8.2.3. Nationalism
8.2.4. Multiculturalism
8.2.5. Acculturation
8.2.6. integration and assimilation
8.2.7. Terms for min. groups
8.2.8. Collectivist/group-oriented societies
8.3. Research question
8.4. Language and transcription
8.4.1. Hepburn