Linking Language, Trade and Migration: Economic Partnership Agreements as Language Policy in Japan

Ruriko Otomo is Associate Professor at the Research Faculty of Media and Communication at Hokkaido University, Japan. She specializes in language policy and planning, with particular attention to the relationship between language, migration and labor. Her contributions appear in international journals and edited books such as Multilingua, Asian Studies Review, Routledge Handbook of Japanese Sociolinguistics (Routledge, 2019), and Language, Global Mobilities and Blue-collar Workplaces (Routledge, 2020).