Question 1 List the other languages of Japan and describe each briefly. Question 2 Explain and discuss the following statement made by Maher. “The increasing visibility and assertiveness of language minorities in Japan now pose a serious issue for government policy which has hitherto been committed to the historical ideology of a monoracial and monolingual state.”(P. 115) Question 3 Choose one minority language listed in the article and discuss it in depth. Question 4 How do the issues centring on minority languages affect educational policies in Japan. (Please read pp. 115116 carefully.) Question 5 What is your impression about this article?