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Buraku Issues: Changes and Challenges

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Sustainability, Diversity, and Equality: Key Challenges for Japan

Part of the book series: Science Across Cultures: The History of Non-Western Science ((SACH,volume 13))

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This chapter explores the changes and challenges faced by the Burakumin, the largest minority group in Japan. Though ethnically Japanese, the Burakumin, and their historical ancestors, have long been marginalized in Japan. By highlighting policies used by the Japanese state to address Buraku issues, I show that that at each opportunity to improve conditions, the state also took approaches that further perpetuated marginalization. Finally, based on a 2022 survey, I present how Buraku discrimination is viewed by young people in Japan.

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  1. International Christian University, Tokyo, Japan

    Christopher Bondy

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  1. Department of Sociology and Anthropology, James Madison University, Harrisonburg, VA, USA

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  2. Faculty Associate and Science Librarian (retired), Hampshire College, Amherst, MA, USA

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Bondy, C. (2023). Buraku Issues: Changes and Challenges. In: Tanaka, K., Selin, H. (eds) Sustainability, Diversity, and Equality: Key Challenges for Japan. Science Across Cultures: The History of Non-Western Science, vol 13. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-36331-3_17

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