The Politics of International Marriage in Japan

"A welcome addition to the growing body of scholarship focused on gender and marriage migration in Japan. Shedding light on various aspects of cross-border relationships, cross-cultural parenting and family formation, The Politics of International Marriage in Japan vibrantly illuminates individual engagement in the dynamics and differences of gender, capital, culture, and nation that are embedded in marriage and migration."

~Kumiko Nemoto, author of Too Few Women at the Top: The Persistence of Inequality in Japan

"A novel and valuable contribution to the growing field of research on international marriages. Bringing together three bodies of research on different nationality groups of migrant spouses, with key themes in the study of marriage-related migration, and the Japanese framework of uchi/soto, this book provides a distinctive and ambitious analysis of the diversity of international marriages in Japan."

~Katharine Charsley, co-author of Marriage Migration and Integration

New Books Network interview with ​Viktoriya Kim, Nelia Balgoa, and Beverley Anne Yamamoto

~New Books Network - Japanese Studies

"International Marriage in Japan: Russian-Speaking Women Married to Japanese Men," by Viktoriya Kim​

~Hurights Osaka newsletter

"This is a useful book for any discussion of contemporary marriage practices in Japan. I would use this book as a secondary source in my Japanese literature classes. It provides important background information as well as nice case studies that I could use as points of comparison with the fiction I assign for my students to read."

~Anne Sokolsky, International Institute for Asian Studies