The Buraku Issue and Modern Japan: The Career of Matsumoto Jiichiro / Edition 1

by Ian Neary

Overview

Casting new light on majority-minority relations and the struggle for Buraku liberation, this book focuses on Matsumoto Jiichiro, arguably the most important Buraku leader of the twentieth century, locating his experience within the broader developments in Japan's social, political and economic history.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780415390828
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	12/21/2009
Series:	Nissan Institute/Routledge Japanese Studies
Pages:	272
Product dimensions:	6.12(w) x 9.19(h) x (d)

About the Author

Ian Neary is a Faculty Fellow at St Antony's College and a Lecturer in the politics of Japan at Oxford University, UK.

Table of Contents

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