Dwa Policy and Japanese Politics

This book locates the development of D wa policy projects within their historical and political context, offering examples of human rights protection in a non-Western society.

Autorentext

Ian Neary is an emeritus fellow of the Nissan Institute and St Antony's College at Oxford University. He has previously published Human Rights in Japan, South Korea and Taiwan, 2002 and The Buraku Issue in Modern Japan: the career of Matsumoto Jiichiro, 2010. The second edition of his textbook, The State and Politics in Japan, was published in 2019.

Klappentext

This book locates the development of D wa policy projects within their historical and political context, offering examples of human rights protection in a non-Western society.

Zusammenfassung
This book locates the development of Dowa policy projects within their historical and political context, offering examples of human rights protection in a non-Western society.

Inhalt

1. Dwa Policy Projects and the problems for which they were a solution 2. Approaches to the Problem 3. A brief review of modern Buraku history and the formation of Ywa policy 4. From Occupation to the new Ten Year Plan: Dwa policy and the reconstruction of Japanese politics, 1945-60 5. From the Shingikai to the Special Measures Law the formation of the Dwa projects policy in the 1960s 6. Implementation I: the Dwa policy process at the national level 7. Implementation II: spending on Dwa policy projects by the main ministries 8. Implementation III: how Dwa policy was implemented locally: examples from Osaka, Nara and Fukuoka prefectures 9. Corrupt practices? A comment on yakuza involvement 10. Conclusions