Contents: Y. Morigiwa: Preface F. Ishiyama: Introduction W. Kymlicka: Universal Minority Rights? The Prospects for Consensus Commentaries: M. Fukada: Comments and Questions to Professor W. Kymlicka F. Ishiyama: A aeDistinctively Liberal' Theory of Minority Rights? T. Katsuragi: Comments on Kymlicka's Multicultural Citizenship R. Hirai: When Kymlicka Takes on Asia Y. Inada: A Kind of Strategic Essentialism? A Commentary on Kymlicka S. Morimura: In Defense of Liberal Imperialism I. Ozaki: Who Saves Whom? A Short Comment on Multicultural Citizenship K. Hasegawa: Comments on Will Kymlicka's Thinking about the Rights of Indigenous People Y. Mouri: Towards a Liberal Extension of Multiculturalism: Focusing Attention on the Present Conditions of the Korean Minority in Japan W. Kymlicka: Replies to Commentaries ."