Multicultural coexistence of contract fishermen fron Asia Pacific countries on Japanese pelagic tuna vessels

由于国内外的一系列问题，日本远洋渔业一直处于危机状态。日本青年工人的缺乏、200海里专属渔区的批准、全球对海洋资源的激烈竞争等等，都给渔业公司带来了困扰。船东需要低成本的劳动力来经营他们的公司。近年来，海外渔民的数量大幅增加，超过了日本船员的数量。渔业公司依赖于来自印度尼西亚和基里巴斯的合同渔民。因此，远洋渔船不可避免地出现了多元文化环境。多元文化共存的结果似乎很好，因为不同文化成员之间的摩擦很少。但事实上，除了在必要的合作捕鱼工作下，它们并不相互交往。正是非发明主义或文明的漫不经心态度，使多元文化的共存表面上平静下来。

Japanese pelagic fishery has been in a state of a crisis for a number of problems both at home and abroad. Fishing companies has suffered from lack of Japanese youth workers, the ratification of a 200-nautical-mile exclusive fishing zone, keen global competitions for marine resources, and so on. The ship-owners need for low cost labor force to operate their companies. In recent years, overseas fishermen has quite increased and exceeded Japanese crew in number on vessels. Fishing companies are dependent on contract fishermen from Indonesia and Kiribati. Then, multicultural circumstances have inevitably emerged on pelagic fishing vessels. It seems as if multicultural coexistence turned out well, because there are few frictions among different cultural members. But in fact, they do not mingle with each other, except under the necessary cooperative fishing work. It is noninventionalist or civil inattentive attitudes that make multicultural coexistence tranquil superficially on vessels.