[This 1994 publication, originally written in Japanese, was Chapter 2 of Towards a New Order, edited by J. C. Maher and N. Honna (Tokyo: Kokusai Shoin).
This article was later rewritten in English, under the title "International precedents for multilingual initiatives in Japan", for publication as Chapter 17 of Linguisticoliterary, edited by R. E. Asher and Roy Harris (Delhi: Pilgrims Book, 2000).  -- J. DeChicchis]