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中国政治経済綜覧
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Ritsuryō kokka to Zuitō bunmei
In: Iwanami shinsho shin'akaban 1827
In: 岩波新書.新赤版 1827
Working skin: making leather, making a multicultural Japan
In: Asia Pacific modern 13
Since the 1980s, arguments for a multicultural Japan have gained considerable currency against an entrenched myth of national homogeneity. Working Skin enters this conversation with an ethnography of Japan's "Buraku" people. Touted as Japan's largest minority, the Buraku are stigmatized because of associations with labor considered unclean, such as leather and meat production. That labor, however, is vanishing from Japan: Liberalized markets have sent these jobs overseas, and changes in family and residential record-keeping have made it harder to track connections to these industries