Multilingual Perspectives in Geolinguistics is a publication of the American Society of Geolinguistics, created with the active participation of its Japanese membership. The editors-in-chief are Professor Wayne Finke of Baruch College (City University of New York) and Professor Hikaru Kitabayashi of Daito Bunka University. The object was to offer potential readers a selection of papers dealing with various topics related to multilingual issues in geolinguistics, a field of study which is concerns languages or varieties of language in contact and/or conflict with each other. This volume includes special contributions dealing with a wide range of multilingual and multicultural issues seen from a geolinguistic perspective.