" The Burakumin. Stigmatized throughout Japanese history as an outcaste group, their
identity is still “risky,” their social presence mostly silent, and their experience marginalized …

Japan's Household Registration System (koseki seido) is an extremely powerful state
instrument, and is socially entrenched with a long history of population governance, social …

The Japanese koseki system is the legal and social structure keeping record of all Japanese
citizens. Determined by the Civil Code and the Koseki Law, for activists challenging it, the …

This introduction presents an overview of the key concepts covered in the subsequent
chapters of this book. The book provides an extensive and critical overview of the Family …

This chapter examines the contemporary situation for mukosekisha and mukokusekisha in
Japanese society. It also examines Japan's family registration and nationality systems from …

The Meiji Restoration was a peculiar renewal that aimed for a constitutional monarchy and
equality for the four feudal castes. It continued to support the differences in social standing …

The koseki 戸籍 (family or household registry) has long served as a material representation
of the conceptual structure of Japanese family relations. Membership in a family has been …

Burakumin are a Japanese minority group who experience a complex kind of discrimination.
But “Burakumin” is also a word that conceals a complex system of ever-changing signs …

It is estimated that every year in Japan 3.000 children go unregistered. When they are born,
they are not recorded in their families' koseki, household register, the main registration …

Our aims in compiling this manuscript are twofold. Firstly, we provide an extensive and
critical overview of the Family Registration System (koseki seido) in Japan for an English …