The Buraku Issue and Modern Japan
Written by an internationally recognised specialist on Buraku studies, this book casts new light on majorityminority relations and the struggle for Buraku liberation. Ian Neary focuses on the Burakumin activist, left-wing politician, family company manager and arguably the most important Buraku leader of the twentieth century: Matsumoto Jiichir
.
Based on primary material reflecting recent research, each chapter locates Matsumoto Jiichir
s experience within the broader developments in Japans social, political and economic history and illuminates dimensions of its social history during the twentieth century that are frequently left unconsidered.
As an examination of Buraku history this book will appeal to scholars and students of Japanese political and economic history, ethnic and racial studies, socialism, social thought and social movements.
Ian Neary is a Faculty Fellow at St Antonys College and Professor in the politics of Japan at Oxford University, UK.
The Nissan Institute/Routledge Japanese Studies Series
Editorial Board
Roger Goodman, Nissan Professor of Modern Japanese Studies, University
of Oxford, Fellow, St Antonys College; J.A.A. Stockwin, formerly Nissan
Professor of Modern Japanese Studies and former Director of the Nissan
Institute of Japanese Studies, University of Oxford, Emeritus Fellow, St
Antonys College; Alan Rix, Executive Dean, Faculty of Arts, The University
of Queensland; Junji Banno, formerly Professor of the University of Tokyo,
now Professor, Chiba University; Leonard Schoppa, Associate Professor,
Department of Government and Foreign Affairs, and Director of the East
Asia Center, University of Virginia
Other titles in the series:
The Myth of Japanese Uniqueness
Peter Dale
The Emperors Adviser: Saionji Kinmochi and Pre-war Japanese Politics
Lesley Connors
A History of Japanese Economic Thought
Tessa Morris-Suzuki
The Establishment of the Japanese Constitutional System
Junji Banno, translated by J.A.A. Stockwin
Industrial Relations in Japan: The Peripheral Workforce
Norma Chalmers
Banking Policy in Japan: American Efforts at Reform During the Occupation
William M. Tsutsui
Educational Reform in Japan
Leonard Schoppa
How the Japanese Learn to Work: Second Edition
Ronald P. Dore and Mari Sako
Japanese Economic Development: Theory and Practice; Second Edition
Penelope Francks
Japan and Protection: The Growth of Protectionist Sentiment and the Japanese Response
Syed Javed Maswood
The Soil, by Nagatsuka Takashi: A Portrait of Rural Life in Meiji Japan
Translated and with an introduction by Ann Waswo
Biotechnology in Japan
Malcolm Brock
Britains Educational Reform: A Comparison with Japan
Michael Howarth
Language and the Modern State: The Reform of Written Japanese
Nanette Twine
Industrial Harmony in Modern Japan: The Intervention of a Tradition
W. Dean Kinzley
Japanese Science Fiction: A View of a Changing Society
Robert Matthew
The Japanese Numbers Game: The Use and Understanding of Numbers in Modern Japan
Thomas Crump
Ideology and Practice in Modern Japan
Edited by Roger Goodman and Kirsten Refsing
Technology and Industrial Development in Pre-war Japan: Mitsubishi Nagasaki Shipyard, 18841934
Yukiko Fukasaku
Japans Early Parliaments, 18901905: Structure, Issues and Trends
Andrew Fraser, R.H.P. Mason and Philip Mitchell
Japans Foreign Aid Challenge: Policy Reform and Aid Leadership
Alan Rix
Emperor Hirohito and Shwa Japan: A Political Biography Stephen S. Large
Japan: Beyond the End of History
David Williams
Ceremony and Ritual in Japan: Religious Practices in an Industrialized Society
Edited by Jan van Bremen and D.P. Martinez
The Fantastic in Modern Japanese Literature: The Subversion of Modernity
Susan J. Napier
Militarization and Demilitarization in Contemporary Japan
Glenn D. Hook
Growing a Japanese Science City: Communication in Scientific Research
James W. Dearing
Architecture and Authority in Japan
William H. Coaldrake
Womens Giday and the Japanese Theatre Tradition A. Kimi Coaldrake
Democracy in Post-war Japan: Maruyama Masao and the Search for Autonomy
Rikki Kersten
Treacherous Women of Imperial Japan: Patriarchal Fictions, Patricidal Fantasies
Hlne Bowen Raddeker
JapaneseGerman Business Relations: Competition and Rivalry in the Interwar Period
Akira Kud Japan, Race and Equality: The Racial Equality Proposal of 1919
Naoko Shimazu
Japan, Internationalism and the UN
Ronald Dore
Life in a Japanese Womens College: Learning to be Ladylike
Brian J. McVeigh
On The Margins of Japanese Society: Volunteers and the Welfare of the Urban Underclass
Carolyn S. Stevens
The Dynamics of Japans Relations with Africa: South Africa, Tanzania and Nigeria
Kweku Ampiah
The Right to Life in Japan
Noel Williams
The Nature of the Japanese State: Rationality and Rituality
Brian J. McVeigh
Society and the State in Inter-war Japan
Edited by Elise K. Tipton
JapaneseSoviet/Russian Relations since 1945: A Difficult Peace
Kimie Hara
Interpreting History in Sino-Japanese Relations: A Case Study in Political Decision-making