During the Tokugama period, 1603-1867, some people were legally designated as impure and outside the four-tiered traditional hierarchy. They, and now their descendants, are known as the burakumin, or
Japan's attempt to project to the world an image of solid middle-class national identity is challenged by the Burakumin, an outcaste group of indigenous Japanese citizens who have been subjugated for
Eight scholars explore the roles that Japanese schools play in the broader social and cultural context of Japan's response to global change. Chapters are grouped in sections on policy and national ref