<p>Two of the largest minority groups in modern Japan&mdash;Koreans, who emigrated to the metropole as colonial subjects, and a social minority known as the Burakumin, who descended from former outcastes&mdash;share a history of discrimination and marginalization that spans the decades of the nation&rsquo;s modern transformation, from the relatively liberal decade of the 1920s, through the militarism and nationalism of the 1930s, to the empire&rsquo;s demise in 1945.</p><p></p><p>Through an analysis of the stereotypes of Koreans and Burakumin that were constructed in tandem with Japan&rsquo;s modernization and imperial expansion, Jeffrey Bayliss explores the historical processes that cast both groups as the antithesis of the emerging image of the proper Japanese citizen/subject. This study provides new insights into the majority prejudices, social and political movements, and state policies that influenced not only their perceived positions as &ldquo;others&rdquo; on the margins of the Japanese empire, but also the minorities&rsquo; views of themselves, their place in the nation, and the often strained relations between the two groups.</p>