Recent reforms to Foreign Language Activities policies in Japan have highlighted the importance of facilitating multilingualism and multiculturalism in global contexts. However, many of the most recent elementary school textbooks (2018-2020) for Foreign Language Activities classes in Japan are English Foreign Language (EFL) textbooks focused largely on English language in tourism settings rather than in educational and social perspectives. With inspiration from critical discourse analysis (e.g., Fairclough 1992a; 1992b; 2001), this paper critically examines representations of multilingualism and multiculturalism in four Japanese EFL textbooks used in elementary schools, "We Can 1," "We Can 2," "Let's Try 1" and "Let's Try 2" (MEXT, 2018). Findings show that the videos, video activities, and images center Japanese culture, and that countries outside of Japan appear in over-simplified mediums, while minority cultures within Japan are not explicitly represented.