Ian Neary is an emeritus fellow of the Nissan Institute and St Antony’s College at Oxford University. He has previously published Human Rights in Japan, South Korea and Taiwan, 2002 and The Buraku Issue in Modern Japan: the career of Matsumoto Jiichiro, 2010. The second edition of his textbook, The State and Politics in Japan, was published in 2019.

• 1. Dōwa Policy Projects and the problems for which they were a solution 2. Approaches to the Problem 3. A brief review of modern Buraku history and the formation of Yūwa policy 4. From Occupation to the new Ten Year Plan: Dōwa policy and the reconstruction of Japanese politics, 1945-60 5. From the Shingikai to the Special Measures Law – the formation of the Dōwa projects policy in the 1960s 6. Implementation I: the Dōwa policy process at the national level 7. Implementation II: spending on Dōwa policy projects by the main ministries 8. Implementation III: how Dōwa policy was implemented locally: examples from Osaka, Nara and Fukuoka prefectures 9. Corrupt practices? A comment on yakuza involvement 10. Conclusions

Ian Neary is an emeritus fellow of the Nissan Institute and St Antony’s College at Oxford University. He has previously published Human Rights in Japan, South Korea and Taiwan, 2002 and The Buraku Issue in Modern Japan: the career of Matsumoto Jiichiro, 2010. The second edition of his textbook, The State and Politics in Japan, was published in 2019.

• 1. Dōwa Policy Projects and the problems for which they were a solution 2. Approaches to the Problem 3. A brief review of modern Buraku history and the formation of Yūwa policy 4. From Occupation to the new Ten Year Plan: Dōwa policy and the reconstruction of Japanese politics, 1945-60 5. From the Shingikai to the Special Measures Law – the formation of the Dōwa projects policy in the 1960s 6. Implementation I: the Dōwa policy process at the national level 7. Implementation II: spending on Dōwa policy projects by the main ministries 8. Implementation III: how Dōwa policy was implemented locally: examples from Osaka, Nara and Fukuoka prefectures 9. Corrupt practices? A comment on yakuza involvement 10. Conclusions