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Rightly or wrongly, just about everyone in Japan considers themselves some variety of middle class. I will say that when all the student activists who manned the barricades back in the day became salarymen that killed any chance of consciousness raising in Japan. The major Japanese political parties do not align themsleves along class lines to even the extent that the Democrats and GOP do in the US. The political divide is more LDP=rural/DPJ=urban. The fact is that Japan's economic miracle has meant that even men without a lot of education could make decent money. I wouldn't say there is no such thing as discrimination against the burakumin anymore, but that whole issue is fading away. In spite of the present economic situation the low birthrate means that may continue. I don't think kabuki is necessarily a very good way to make money-that's not an easy life.
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