The wide range of themes of our research group have fundamentally remained the same since the initial opening of the Institute of Buraku Studies.
All research has an historical and theoretical foundation, as well as having a solid practical base.
A wide range of research of an historical and theoretical nature is being undertaken with the collaboration of people form various areas. The focus of our research group has been on the human rights issues facing the increasing number of foreign workers in Japan. In the face of an aging society and a worsening recession, the working and living environments for foreign workers in concentrated areas are under investigation. Furthermore, attention is being given towards the serious human rights problems occurring in central Europe with the anti-foreign workers movement. Such research is based on several field surveys conducted in designated regions in Hokkaido.