ABSTRACT The Japanese community in Singapore comprises mainly white-collar workers and their families. This article addresses issues concerning education, overseas living, and identity-related investments made visible by way of examining schooling and parenting practices. Framed within a critique which recognizes schooling and identity investment as being inherently ideological in nature, the discussion centers around a Japanese school in whose broader operations both parents and other Japanese institutions are involved. Subsequent analysis is directed towards deconstructing (1) institutionalized practices relating to ways in which Japanese overseas organize their lives and frame their life experiences; and (2) the means by which particular notions of Japanese cultural and national heritage are legitimated and fostered through schooling. The article concludes with the observation that the maintenance of an ideologized form of Japaneseness, and not the engenderment of cosmopolitan or globalized identities, constitutes the dominant driving force behind Japanese-medium schooling in Singapore.

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在国际大都会新加坡为（日本）儿童提供教育：搭建桥梁和设置障碍

摘要新加坡的日本人社区主要由白领及其家庭组成。本文讨论有关教育，海外生活和与身份相关的投资的问题，这些问题通过检查学校教育和养育方式可见。讨论的主题是承认教育和身份投资本质上是一种意识形态，而讨论则围绕一所日本学校展开，该学校的父母和其他日本机构都参与其中。随后的分析旨在解构（1）与日本海外人如何组织生活和构筑生活经历有关的制度化实践；（2）通过学校教育使日本文化和民族遗产的特定概念合法化和培育的方式。