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Cover illustration: The National Horizons Society flag, the current flag of the BLL Hiroshima Federation.

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Buraku, Capitalism and the State in Japan

Series:  Studies in Critical Social Sciences, Volume: 338
Cover Buraku, Capitalism and the State in Japan
E-Book ISBN:
9789004744257
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Brill
Print Publication Date:
15 Oct 2025
  • Subjects
    • History
      • Social History
    • Human Rights and Humanitarian Law
      • Human Rights
    • Social Sciences
      • Critical Social Sciences
      • Sociology & Anthropology
      • Asian Studies
Front Matter
Preliminary Material
Copyright Page
Dedication
Acknowledgments
Illustrations and Tables
Abbreviations
Notes on Contributors
Prologue
Chapter 1 Burakumin as a Strategic Minority: Buraku Discrimination and Nation-Building in Modern Japan
Chapter 2 Constructing and Reconstructing Buraku in Military Cities: State, Capital, Violence, and Subjectification of Power
Chapter 3 Buraku Liberation Movements and Denunciation
Chapter 4 The Imperial System and the Buraku Issue as Mental Structure
Chapter 5 Buraku Discrimination and Dowa Policy in Postwar Japan
Chapter 6 Buraku Liberation and Literacy Movement: Memoir against Discrimination
Chapter 7 The Entrenchment of Disparities in Buraku Areas and De-problematization
Chapter 8 Stagnation and Silence in Small Buraku: Elimination of Existence and Violence
Epilogue
Back Matter
A Photographic Story of Japan’s Buraku
Index

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