Abstract
This study examines mainly cross-cultural adaptation--acculturation, deculturation, and the forming of intercultural identity. The author conducted an ethnographic study on cross-cultural adaptation among Japanese and U.S.-American employees who worked at a Japanese plant in the U.S. midwest for ten months in 2005. This study explored how Japanese and U.S.-American employees in the plant narrate their cross-cultural adaptation process to their counterpart's culture, while paying attention to aspects of power, such as race, gender, status, language fluency, Japanization context, and the host society. Also discussed is how this study may potentially contribute to the following scholarly disciplines: discourse on cross-cultural adaptation, intercultural communication, whiteness studies, and research on border-crossing ethnographic practices.
