Download or read book Japan's Outcaste Abolition written by Noah Y. McCormack and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Tokugawa Shogunate, which governed Japan for two and a half centuries until the mid-1860s, classed people into hierarchically ranked status groups, known in Japanese as mibun. This book begins by examining the origins and evolution of the outcast groups within the Tokugawa status order.