Discrimination in Modern Japan: Case Studies in Identity Politics

by J. Mark Ramseyer

An informative rethinking of how Japanese society discriminates against its Korean, Okinawan, and Burakumin populations.

In this book, J. Mark Ramseyer, a noted authority on Japan looks at discrimination against groups in Japanese society, focusing on the Korean, Okinawan, and Burakumin groups. Ramseyer asks why they experience discrimination in Japan, an unusually homogeneous society. Is it because of some prejudice on the part of...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226816168
• ISBN13: 9780226816166
• Release Date: March 2022
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 224 Pages