Two of the largest minority groups in modern Japan Koreans, who emigrated to the metropole as colonial subjects, and a social minority known as the Burakumin, who descended from former outcastes share a history of discrimination and marginalization that spans the decades of the nation s modern transformation, from the relatively liberal decade of the 1920s, through the militarism and nationalism of the 1930s, to the empire s demise in 1945.
Through an analysis of the stereotypes of Koreans and Burakumin that were constructed in tandem with Japan s modernization and imperial expansion,...
Two of the largest minority groups in modern Japan Koreans, who emigrated to the metropole as colonial subjects, and a social minority known as the...