A teacher who traveled to Japan on a Japan Institute for Social and Economic Affairs (JISEA) travel-study fellowship talks about the many problems facing Japan today, including resource scarcity and concern about global conflict. Characteristics of the Japanese people are also discussed. (RM)

Assesses the state of applied Japanese studies in American universities, offering suggestions for curriculum improvement, providing data on 15 programs, and describing six programs (including one at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology). Indicates that few science/technology majors take Japanese despite strong present and future needs for…

Surveyed students (N=400) from four ethnic groups for expected reactions to stressful events and preferences for help. White, Black, Hispanic, and Asian subjects completed questionnaires, which revealed differences between ethnic groups and indicated that subgroups exist within the ethnic groups. (BH)

Radical changes in academe as a result of the Cultural Revolution, many of which are still felt on Chinese campuses, and the desire to rebuild the scholarly structure are discussed. (MSE)

Examines literary works by first-generation Chinese immigrants and Chinese Americans. Reports that each group has been critical in its portrayals of the other, especially when some direct interaction between the two groups is depicted. Asserts that this literature has shown how ethnocentrism has divided the Chinese in America. (KH)

Provides excerpts from personal accounts presented at a 1984 conference on the needs of children of interracial families: "Communicating is the Key" (Philip Spivey); "Growing Up with an Asian American Heritage" (Clarence L. Chen); "An Hispanic Perspective on Biracial, Bicultural Families" (Irma Garcia Rose); and…

Analyzes 1979 unemployment statistics in the Chinatowns of Los Angeles, New York, and San Francisco. Presents a composite qualitative account, based on case studies, of their underlying labor system. Reports that Chinatown workers characteristically remain attached to the ethnic labor market, despite its low wages and employment instability. (KH)

Briefly examines some of the historical and cultural backgrounds from which Asian-American literature arises. (CRH)

Examines how the Asian American movement directly and indirectly enters into the process of reconceptualization which enables many who are only marginally a part of the majority communications net to become more fully integrated. (Author/AM)

Asserts that all Asian-American writers create out of, and despite their awareness of a double-terror, the knowledge (empirically derived from generations of betrayal) that language can be a trap and the equally bitter realization that the only alternative is ignominous silence; and notes that Asian American literature reaches some level of…

A writer on Asian American history and culture and a member of the California Board of Education's committee to evaluate textbooks argues that "publishers must learn to break the ethnocentric mold of their books on all levels...--an effective step against racism in the classroom is the participation of educators, parents and concerned people…

Included in this list are both works devoted solely to Asian Americans and works which include references to Asian Americans. (Author/AM)

This digest uses recent statistics, including Census 2000 data, to synthesize information on Asian and Pacific Islander American (APIA) children and families. The APIA population is diverse, and APIA groups vary widely in language, religion, beliefs, and health practices. The percentage of foreign born differs widely among APIA groups. The U.S.…

The purpose of this research was to assess and analyze the frequency and trends of multicultural counseling articles in thirteen journals published by the American Counseling Association (ACA) from 1980 to 1996, with specific focus on four racial and ethnic groups prevalent in the United States: African American, Asian American, Latino, and Native…

Educational policy usually overlooks Cambodian American students as a unique ethnic group, attending instead to the positive statistics that aggregate Asian American students into a single group of successful students. Reflecting the reality of underachievement in this population, much of the existing research on Cambodian Americans has focused on…