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1. The Buraku Issue and Modern Japan

   The Career of Matsumoto Jiichiro

   By Ian Neary

   Series: Nissan Institute/Routledge Japanese Studies

   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...

   Published December 20th 2009 by Routledge
2. Human Rights in Japan, South Korea and Taiwan

   By Ian Neary

   Series: Routledge Advances in Asia-Pacific Studies

   Ian Neary looks in detail at the history of the introduction of human rights ideas into Japan, South Korea and Taiwan and examines how, and to what effect, state and society have incorporated the specific international standards on childrens' and patients' rights into legal systems and social...

   Published April 30th 2006 by Routledge
3. Leaders and Leadership in Japan

   By Ian Neary

   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....

   Published June 2nd 1996 by Routledge
4. Case Studies on Human Rights in Japan

   By Roger Goodman, Ian Neary

   Japanese society is often referred to as an example of a homogeneous culture moderated by an ethos of groupism. Yet often enough homogeneity is its own worst enemy as norms are required and enforced at the centre of power to the detriment of individual and human rights....

   Published May 12th 1996 by Routledge
5. War, Revolution and Japan

   By Ian Neary

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

   Published January 16th 1995 by Routledge