Japan's Outcaste Abolition : The Struggle for National Inclusion and the Making of the Modern State [1 ed.] 9781136283680, 9780415501323

The Tokugawa Shogunate, which governed Japan for two and a half centuries until the mid-1860s, classed people into hiera

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Japan's Outcaste Abolition : The Struggle for National Inclusion and the Making of the Modern State [1 ed.]
9781136283680, 9780415501323

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