Los Burakumin en la prensa japonesa. El Asahi Shimbun como caso de estudio

Abstract

This article analyzes the way in which main Japanese mass media have been portraying the Buraku community, and how these media have been changed their way of approaching to the Dowa issue during the 1990s.it also analyzes the characteristics of the above mentioned representation, of capital importance in order to understand the approach of the nation-scale Japanese media to the problem of Buraku discrimination, during this decade.