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| − | "Identity Politics and Organized Crime in Japan: The Impact of Targeted Subsidies on Burakumin Communities, | + | "Identity Politics and Organized Crime in Japan: The Impact of Targeted Subsidies on Burakumin Communities," ''Journal of Empirical Legal Studies.'' 15(1):192-238 (March 2018). In 1969 the Japanese government launched a subsidy program (the SMA) targeted at the traditional outcastes known as the burakumin. The subsidies attracted the organized crime syndicates, who diverted funds for private gain. Newly enriched, they shifted large numbers of young burakumin men away from legal business and intensified the tendency many Japanese already had to equate the burakumin with the mob. Although the resulting community centers and public housing improved burakumin infrastructure, they also lowered the cost to the public of identifying burakumin neighborhoods. We explore the effects of the termination of the program in 2002 by integrating 30 years of modern municipality data with a 1936 census of burakumin. Outmigration from municipalities with more burakumin increased significantly after the end of the program. Apparently, the subsidies restrained burakumin from joining mainstream society. Conversely, once the mob-tied corruption and extortion associated with the subsidies ended, real estate prices in burakumin neighborhoods rose; it seems other Japanese found the burakumin communities more attractive places to live after the subsidies ended. http://rasmusen.org/papers/burakumin-ramseyer-rasmusen.pdf |
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Latest revision as of 15:53, 28 September 2020
"Ostracism in Japan" (September 28, 2020), address http://rasmusen.org/papers/ostracism.htm
The handout is at http://rasmusen.org/papers/ostracism-handout.pdf or http://rasmusen.org/papers/ostracism-handout.docx.
The paper is at http://rasmusen.org/papers/ostracism.docx or http://rasmusen.org/papers/ostracism.pdf.
The slides are at http://rasmusen.org/papers/ostracism-slides.docx.
A Yale-Toronto seminar was presented by Professor Ramseyer on August 28, 2020, 10am-12:30pm Eastern on Zoom at http://eastasianlegalcultures.com/?fbclid=IwAR2Sl4EXOabCI7EzzW4NJDf5H-Paj1lOhgGWICJzCuXnAIAF7B0-sBdKlI8 and at the mirror site Xueshuzhi, "Chronicle of Scholarship", at https://live.polyv.cn/splash/1889952.
Eric Rasmusen's homepage is http://rasmusen.org/ and his vitae is at http://rasmusen.org/vita.htm.
Mark Ramseyer's Harvard page is at xxx and his vitae is at yyy.
You also might be interested in our paper, "Identity Politics and Organized Crime in Japan: The Impact of Targeted Subsidies on Burakumin Communities," Journal of Empirical Legal Studies. 15(1):192-238 (March 2018). In 1969 the Japanese government launched a subsidy program (the SMA) targeted at the traditional outcastes known as the burakumin. The subsidies attracted the organized crime syndicates, who diverted funds for private gain. Newly enriched, they shifted large numbers of young burakumin men away from legal business and intensified the tendency many Japanese already had to equate the burakumin with the mob. Although the resulting community centers and public housing improved burakumin infrastructure, they also lowered the cost to the public of identifying burakumin neighborhoods. We explore the effects of the termination of the program in 2002 by integrating 30 years of modern municipality data with a 1936 census of burakumin. Outmigration from municipalities with more burakumin increased significantly after the end of the program. Apparently, the subsidies restrained burakumin from joining mainstream society. Conversely, once the mob-tied corruption and extortion associated with the subsidies ended, real estate prices in burakumin neighborhoods rose; it seems other Japanese found the burakumin communities more attractive places to live after the subsidies ended. http://rasmusen.org/papers/burakumin-ramseyer-rasmusen.pdf
