Japan’s Burakumin (Outcastes) Reconsidered: A Special Issue Refuting Ramseyer’s Interpretation - The Asia-Pacific Journal: Japan Focus

Mark Ramseyer, the Mitsubishi Professor of Japanese law at Harvard, 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 the ones to his work on “comfort women”, ianfu, but in the course of the last twelve months a number of historians, anthropologists and sociolo