Political scientist Samuel Huntington warned that when societies undergo rapid sequences of change without the parallel strengthening of institutions, they invite disorder rather than development. In ...

Sir: A man, who cannot speak his native language, is a cultural alien; and as such, he cannot be socialized into his people’s culture. Language, we know, belongs to the non-material aspect of culture.

With recent legislation opening the door to lower-skilled foreign labor, the Japanese government has finally awakened to its responsibility to support the social integration of immigrants through ...

The decision of the 69th National Council on Education (NCE) to cancel the National Language Policy has met with great condemnation from stakeholders across walks of life. I should put it ...