Editing Master race (section)

==Yamato and Japan==
{{Main|An Investigation of Global Policy with the Yamato Race as Nucleus}}
During the [[Meiji era]], a sense of superiority over other Asians existed in the Japanese society, with discrimination being enacted against even against racial minorities such as the [[Ryūkyū people|Ryūkyū]] and [[Ainu people|Ainu]] peoples.<ref name=ryukyuandainu>{{cite web|url=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/278729134|title=Language Conflict and Language Rights: The Ainu, Ryūkyūans, and Koreans in Japan.|first1=Stanley|last1=Dubinsky|first2=William D.|last2=Davies|date=January 2013|accessdate=November 12, 2023}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://apjjf.org/2020/20/Zohar.html|title=
Introduction: Race and Empire in Meiji Japan|first=Ayelet|last=Zohar|publisher=The Asia-Pacific Journal|date=October 15, 2020|accessdate=November 12, 2023}}</ref> In July 1943, promotion of Yamato racial superiority was further affirmed by the Japanese government with the publishing of ''[[An Investigation of Global Policy with the Yamato Race as Nucleus]]''.<ref>{{citation| title= Ethnic Engineering: Scientific Racism and Public Opinion Surveys in Midcentury Japan| last=Morris-Suzuki| first= Tessa | publisher=Duke University Press| volume=8 |number=2 | date= Fall 2000| pages=499–529}}</ref>