1st Edition
The Buraku Issue and Modern Japan The Career of Matsumoto Jiichiro
By Ian Neary
Copyright 2010
272 Pages
11 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
272 Pages
11 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
272 Pages
11 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
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Written by an internationally recognized specialist on Buraku studies, this book casts new light on majority-minority 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 Jiichiro.
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1. The Early Years 2. Matsumoto and the Suiheisha 3. From Prison to the Diet 4. Matsumoto Jiichirô: Dietman 1936–41 5. Matsumoto and the War in the Pacific 6. Matsumoto and Occupied Japan 7. Matsumoto in the 1950s 8. His Last Years: The 1960s
Biography
Ian Neary is a Faculty Fellow at St Antony's College and a Lecturer in the politics of Japan at Oxford University, UK.
"Ian Neary deserves our praise and gratitude for his sustained effort to chart the contours of a problem that is compelling both as a human rights issue and as a subject with the potential to teach us so much about Japanese society, politics, and history [...] With his publication of this new biography of Matsumoto Jiichiro (1887 - 1966), he has greatly enriched our understanding of preward buraku activism, while also providing an account of how the movement developed through World War II into the 1960s." -- Daniel Botsman, Yale University, in Monumenta Nipponica, 66:2 (2011)
