Whether there were black slaves in Japan during the reign of Nobunaga Oda
tokushinchannel No, it’s not. A slave is an object of trade, like livestock, that is not subject to legal protection, whether it is killed, raped, or abused.
There has never been a time in Japan when slavery was recognized as an institution.
11Kumagoro: A slave is a slave by virtue of being forced to work.
Japan has never been slave-free since ancient times until after the war.
I see, so this is the kind of definitional discrepancy that’s happening. - Both “is X” and “is not X” are compatible.
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