Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS v
3. List of Figures xiii
4. Translator’s Preface xix
5. Foreword xxi
6. PART I: THE PRE-MODERN PERIOD
7. CHAPTER 1 The Establishment of the Japanese State and the Formation and Transformation of Status Discrimination 1
8. CHAPTER 2 The Formation of the Ritsuryō State Structure and the Status System 8
9. CHAPTER 3 Formation and Development of Society in the Middle Ages and the Lifestyle and Culture of Discriminated People 24
10. CHAPTER 4 The Establishment of Kawata and Chōri Status – the Buraku of the early modern period 54
11. CHAPTER 5 Discriminated Groups of the Early Modern Period 81
12. CHAPTER 6 The Development of Early Modern (Kinsei) Society and Discriminated People 89
13. CHAPTER 7 The Dislocation and Collapse of Early Modern Society and Discriminated People 103
14. PART TWO
15. CHAPTER 8 What was the ‘Buraku’ problem in the modern period? 113
16. CHAPTER 9 Signs of Discrimination Invented 125
17. CHAPTER 10 Discriminated Buraku are ‘Discovered’ 137
18. CHAPTER 11 Seeking Unification of the Empire 149
19. CHAPTER 12 Rice Riots and Racial Equality 163
20. CHAPTER 13 Liberation by Our Own Efforts 175
21. CHAPTER 14 Liberation or Conciliation? 192
22. CHAPTER 15 ‘National Unity’ and its Contradictions 204
23. CHAPTER 16 Post-war Reforms and the Re-launch of the Buraku Liberation Movement 221
24. CHAPTER 17 Making Citizens: Becoming Citizens 237
25. CHAPTER 18 Absorption and Exclusion into ‘Civil Society’ 250
26. CHAPTER 19 Looking at the Buraku Problem Now 259
27. Afterword 267
28. Bibliography 269
29. Index 289