PART I
1. Social Cohesion and the Challenge of Globalization; Ernest Healy, Dharma Arunachalam and Tetsuo Mizukami
2. Japan's Social Cohesion in Relation to Immigration Issues; Tetsuo Mizukami
3. Australian Multiculturalism – 'Natural Transition' or Social Coercion?; Ernest Healy
4. Contemporary Australian Attitudes to Immigration; Andrew Markus
5. Immigration Challenges in Japan: How has Japanese Society Coped with Immigration?; Hirohisa Takenoshita
PART II
6. Why Did a Half of Municipal Governments Disappear under a National Mergers Policy? : Changing Local Bases in 'Globalizing' Japan; Takashi Machimura
7. "Diasporic" Muslims, "Minoritarian" Islam and Modern Democratic Citizenship: Negotiating Accommodation and Integration; Clive S. Kessler
8. Volunteering and Civic Participation in the Vietnamese-Australian Community; Rose Misajon, Vicki Hutton and Ana-Maria Bliuc
9. Intermarriage, Language Use and Integration of Migrants; Dharma Arunachalam and Maria Karidakis
10. Intermarriage and Japanese Identity; Shuko Takeshita
PART III
11. Internationalization of Higher Education as a Response to Globalization: Japan's Policy Challenges Since the 1980s; Yukako Yonezawa And Akiyoshi Yonezawa
12. Higher Education and Social Cohesion: Universities, Citizenship and Spaces of Orientation; Miriam Faine, Sue Plowright and Terri Seddon
13. Individual Labor-Related Dispute Mechanisms in Japan PolicyIntention and Individual Worker Aspirations; Nobuko Hosogaya
14. The Youth Labor Market in Japan; Nobuaki Fujioka
15. Globalization, Immigration Policy and Youth Employment in Australia; Bob Birrell and Ernest Healy

Creating Social Cohesion in an Interdependent World 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.