{"id":404,"date":"2021-05-11T23:08:27","date_gmt":"2021-05-11T23:08:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chwe.net\/irle\/?p=404"},"modified":"2021-05-11T23:08:58","modified_gmt":"2021-05-11T23:08:58","slug":"japans-burakumin-outcastes-reconsidered-a-special-issue-refuting-ramseyers-interpretation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chwe.net\/irle\/2021\/05\/11\/japans-burakumin-outcastes-reconsidered-a-special-issue-refuting-ramseyers-interpretation\/","title":{"rendered":"Japan\u2019s Burakumin (Outcastes) Reconsidered: A Special Issue Refuting Ramseyer\u2019s Interpretation"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Mark Ramseyer published four articles (two articles published in peer-reviewed journals, and two discussion papers) about the Buraku issue from 2017 to 2020. Responses to them were slower to emerge than&nbsp;the ones to his work on \u201ccomfort women,\u201d&nbsp;<em>ianfu<\/em>, but in the course of the last twelve months a number of historians, anthropologists and sociologists in Japan have produced critiques of his claims about Buraku history showing that they are based on equally flawed scholarship.&nbsp; This <a href=\"https:\/\/apjjf.org\/2021\/9\/ToC.html\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/apjjf.org\/2021\/9\/ToC.html\">special issue<\/a> comprises five statements originally written in Japanese pointing out his \u201cmisunderstandings,\u201d accompanied by a joint statement by a group of two Japanese and two Anglophone social scientists on his research objectives and methodology, and a trenchant comprehensive joint statement produced by five Anglophone scholars who have a broad spectrum of expertise on the history and culture of Buraku communities.  <a href=\"https:\/\/apjjf.org\/2021\/9\/ToC.html\">Special issue<\/a> of The Asia-Pacific Journal, Japan Focus, edited by <strong>Ian Neary<\/strong> and <strong>Saito Naoko<\/strong>, with special issue coordinator <strong>Tomomi Yamaguchi<\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mark Ramseyer published four articles (two articles published in peer-reviewed journals, and two discussion papers) about the Buraku issue from 2017 to 2020. Responses to them were slower to emerge than&nbsp;the ones to his work on \u201ccomfort women,\u201d&nbsp;ianfu, but in the course of the last twelve months a number of &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-404","post","type-post","status-publish","format-image","hentry","category-uncategorized","post_format-post-format-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chwe.net\/irle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/404","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chwe.net\/irle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chwe.net\/irle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chwe.net\/irle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chwe.net\/irle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=404"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/chwe.net\/irle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/404\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":406,"href":"https:\/\/chwe.net\/irle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/404\/revisions\/406"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chwe.net\/irle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=404"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chwe.net\/irle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=404"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chwe.net\/irle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=404"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}