Introduction: Buraku Studies
Timothy D. Amos
1. Outcast Status in Historical Japan: From the Heian to the Early Modern Period
Gerald Groemer
2. Early Modern Shogunate Law and “Outcastes”: The “Institutionalization” of Discrimination and the Existence of Regionality
Takahiko Yasutake
3. Status Discrimination and Marginal Status: A Social History of Early Modern Japanese Eta / Kawata
Timothy D. Amos and Michael Abele
4. Military Service and Status Promotion: Overcoming and Using Status Barriers in Late-Tokugawa and Early-Meiji Period Japan
Noah McCormack
5. Outcast Status Groups and the Dismantling of the Early Modern Status Order
John Patrick Porter
6. Landownership, Status, and Local Society in Early Meiji Asakusa Shinchō
John Patrick Porter
7. The Birth of Urban Buraku Communities
Johannes Kiener
8. Competing Narratives of Liberation: Prewar Buraku Activism and the Suiheisha Movement
Qianqing Huang
9. Gender and Subaltern in the 1920s Women’s Suiheisha Movement
Tsutomu Tomotsune
10. The Buraku Liberation Movement 1945-2022
Ian Neary
11. The Dowa Policy Process
Ian Neary
12. Settlement Work and Rinpokan
Takanori Yamamoto
13. The Sayama Incident, the Buraku Issues behind it, and the Current Situation
Midori Kurokawa
14. Between Writing and Advocacy: The Media Ecology of Buraku Bungei
Anne McKnight
15. What is the Buraku Problem according to the “General Public”? The View from Public Opinion Surveys on Human Rights
Noah McCormack
16. The Contemporary Nature of Buraku Discrimination: Is it more geographical than genealogical?
Mariko Akuzawa
17. Gentrification and Spatial Inequality in Buraku Communities
Kojiro Sho and Ryo Fukuoka
18. Identity Formation Among People from Discriminated Buraku Communities: Historical Developments and the Current Situation
Ryushi Uchida
19. Creating a Knowledge of Resistance: Questions Raised by Buraku Women
Risa Kumamoto
Biography
Timothy D. Amos is Senior Lecturer in Japanese Studies at the School of Languages and Cultures, University of Sydney, Australia. His research primarily focuses on questions of human rights, marginality, and social stratification in Japan from the early modern period through to the present.
