The Socio-Political Role of the Buraku (Hamlet) in Japan*

Robert E. Ward

American Political Science Review, 1951, vol. 45, issue 4, 1025-1040

Abstract: There presently exists in Japan an entire level of socio-political organization practically unknown to Westerners and little studied by the Japanese themselves until recent years. It comprises one of the lowest units of group organization in rural Japan and, in a practical everyday sense, plays a more immediate and important role in the daily lives of a larger proportion of the Japanese people than do any of the more formal and better known units of organization, such as the village, town, gun (county) or prefecture. This unit is known as the buraku, perhaps best rendered into English as hamlet.

Date: 1951
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