1st Edition

Dōwa Policy and Japanese Politics

By Ian Neary Copyright 2022
276 Pages 16 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

276 Pages 16 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

276 Pages 16 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

This book locates the development of Dōwa policy projects within their historical and political context, offering examples of human rights protection in a non-Western society. Charting Dōwa policy from its origins in the pre-war period to its revival after 1945 up to the turn of the 21st century, chapters in this study provide a social and historical review supplemented by detailed analyses of... Read more
1. Dōwa Policy Projects and the problems for which they were a solution  2. Approaches to the Problem  3. A brief review of modern Buraku history and the formation of Yūwa policy  4. From Occupation to the new Ten Year Plan: Dōwa policy and the reconstruction of Japanese politics, 1945-60  5. From the Shingikai to the Special Measures Law – the formation of the Dōwa projects policy in the 1960s  6. Implementation I: the Dōwa policy process at the national level  7. Implementation II: spending on Dōwa policy projects by the main ministries  8. Implementation III: how Dōwa policy was implemented locally: examples from Osaka, Nara and Fukuoka prefectures   9. Corrupt practices? a comment on yakuza involvement  10. Conclusions

Biography

Ian Neary is an emeritus fellow of the Nissan Institute and St Antony’s College at Oxford University. He has previously published Human Rights in Japan, South Korea and Taiwan, 2002 and The Buraku Issue in Modern Japan: the career of Matsumoto Jiichiro, 2010. The second edition of his textbook, The State and Politics in Japan, was published in 2019.