As New-comers are growing in Japan society recently, it is necessary to provide them the institutional strategy for living together with multi-races and there are many studies which suggest actively proper immigration policies. In these earlier studies, however, they focused on just the solutions to the faced current problems, while overlooking the varieties of New- Comers' experience, personality and the relationship between them such as the background and purpose of their immigration and their lifestyle. Thus, in this study, targeting Korean immigration women in Japan, the changes of their ideas and choices on the double value standards were examined through approach to the variety of concepts of value standards and the qualitative analysis of steps of their enculturation.
First, it shows that the value standards of their view about nation and race are being adjusted and assimilated to the mainstream culture. If we look into the aspects of their assimilation in the process of this in the respect of qualitative steps, we can find that they were influenced by the mainstream society in the steps of behavior and recognition but they felt that it was difficult to assimilate to the mainstream society emotionally.
Second, in terms of the value standard regarding family relationship, the layered value standards appearing in the family relationship, as well as their perception to stray from the traditional value standards in the family relationship, played an important role when deciding to migrate into a new society and then to settle in a heterogeneous culture; and influenced on the acceptance of value standard in heterogeneous culture. On the other hand, by showing expectations for ‘Korean’ family relationship, there comes cultural ‘integration’ aspect of absorbing the value of mainstream society while maintaining the cultural values of motherland.
Finally, since the value standards of human relationship in the society and groups are in close connection to the daily life, they tend to cause problems. Especially most of them don’t fit with the emotion of the mainstream society, thereby they tend to have many conflicts on the double value standards.
Since the people who immigrate into new society have individual various backgrounds, they certainly tend to have conflicts in the circumstances between their own culture and the new culture which has different value standard and social value standards from their own culture. It also shows that there are other aspects in the adjustment to new culture in quality. While in the earlier studies they proposed the steps of adjusting themselves to other culture synthetically and resultantly, this study finds out which aspects of the individual double values they have and which aspects of the multi-faced value standard they also have in this respect. It also examines the various aspects of their culture assimilation shown in each qualitative step of value standards.