Japan's Invisible Race: Caste in Culture and Personality by Hiroshi Wagatsuma, George De Vos

Japan's Invisible Race: Caste in Culture and Personality

Publications of the Center for Japanese and Korean Studies

Hiroshi Wagatsuma, George De Vos

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Modern Japanese share a myth to the effect that they harbor in their midst an inferior race less "human" than the stock that fathered their nation as a whole. These pariahs, numbering more than two million, are segregated by caste just as firmly a...

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