Product Description: Written by an internationally recognized specialist on Buraku studies, this book casts new light on majority-minority relations and the struggle for Buraku liberation. Ian Neary focuses on the Burakumin activist, left-wing politician, family company manager and arguably the most important Buraku leader of the twentieth century: Matsumoto Jiichiro...read more

Product Description: Written by an internationally recognized specialist on Buraku studies, this book casts new light on majority-minority relations and the struggle for Buraku liberation. Ian Neary focuses on the Burakumin activist, left-wing politician, family company manager and arguably the most important Buraku leader of the twentieth century: Matsumoto Jiichiro...read more

Product Description: This book provides a comprehensive guide to the state and politics in Japan at the start of the twenty-first century. In it, Ian Neary asks if the state in Japan is in any important sense different from states in western societies...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Shows Japan's group-orientated society may have had fewer so-called 'leaders', but has excelled as a society of king-makers. On the other hand, the way leadership is expressed derives from different values and perceptions of hierarchy.

The end of the Cold War years has brought tumultuous change. Revolutionary changes, however, are not new to the Japanese.

Product Description: This collection of essays does not act as a history of the Korean War, but more as an aid in focusing on the effect of the war on history. Of special interest is the article on who initiated the Korean War. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.