Burakumin (部落民, 'hamlet/village people') is a term for ethnic Japanese people who are believed to be descended from members of the pre-Meiji feudal class...

peasant, craftsmen, and merchant classes, and various "untouchable" or Burakumin groups. The Tokugawa shogunate ruled by dividing the people into four...

Japanese-born Koreans, and only 10 percent are from non-burakumin Japanese and Chinese ethnic groups. The burakumin is a group that Japanese society socially discriminates...

continued treating them as burakumin. Today, fewer people are discriminate towards burakumin, however, the term burakumin is still recognized as a discriminating...

representing the contributions of burakumin, is found in Naniwa Ward in Osaka, home to a large proportion of burakumin. Among other features, the road contains...

can also be understood as a euphemism for the buraku ghettos, where burakumin people used to live. Garden portal Tea garden Moss garden Tsubo-niwa Nonaka...

mostly of Japanese descent are also among Japan's small minority groups. Burakumin make up a social minority group. Japan's constitution guarantees full...

jurisdiction within the eta and hinin. In the 19th century the umbrella term burakumin was coined to name the eta and hinin because both classes were forced...

businessman, and leader of the Burakumin liberation movement. Born in Fukuoka Prefecture, Matsumoto led the Burakumin liberation movement during its activity...

Political Science. His uncle was an activist for the minority group known as Burakumin, who have continued to suffer caste-based discrimination in employment...

(late Meiji period) under the title Hakai (破戒). The novel deals with the burakumin (部落民, 'village people'), formerly known as eta. This book enjoyed great...

imprisoned for 31 years, highlighted official discrimination against Japan's burakumin caste. Ishikawa was originally sentenced to death by hanging, but his...

the International Review of Law and Economics in which he argued that Burakumin is a "fictive identity" created in 1922. This article provoked detailed...

called Senmin Haishirei (賤民廃止令 Edict Abolishing Ignoble Classes) giving burakumin equal legal status. It is currently better known as the Kaihōrei (解放令...

The term has also been used to refer to other groups, including the Burakumin of Japan, the Baekjeong of Korea, and the Ragyabpa of Tibet, as well as...

all his brethren." Anthropology Begging Bitlaha (applied in south Asia) Burakumin Cagot Castaway Dalit also called outcaste Deviancy Hobo Leatherman Marooning...

Institute estimates that as of 1998, between 60 and 80% of burakumin marry a non-burakumin. One of the largest minority groups among Japanese citizens...

Panchama. Several scholars have drawn parallels between Dalits and the Burakumin of Japan, the Baekjeong of Korea and the peasant class of the medieval...

Takeda, Fushimi, Kyoto. The song has long been sung by the people in the burakumin areas of Kyoto and Osaka in a slightly different form. During the 1960s...

called burakumin. While modern law has officially abolished the class hierarchy, there are reports of discrimination against the buraku or burakumin underclasses...

by Japanese samurai angry that the traditional untouchable status of burakumin was legally revoked. Under the Meiji Restoration, the practices of the...

19th-century Japan over Japan today. These maps marked areas inhabited by the burakumin caste, formerly known as eta (穢多), literally "abundance of defilement"...

the Tokugawa shogunate, demotion to burakumin status was sometimes a way of punishing criminals. Today, burakumin members may be identified by the region...

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the only, post-war Japanese writer to identify himself publicly as a Burakumin, a member of one of Japan's long-suffering outcaste groups. His works...

begin recruiting from other marginalized groups, such as the Japanese burakumin or Zainichi ethnic Koreans. Japan portal Mat Rempit Ah Beng Mod, a youth...

the Meiji Restoration. Secondary causes included popular anger at the Burakumin Emancipation Edict of 1871 and the institution of mandatory public schooling...

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this system, or were registered in specific registers, for instance the burakumin. The modern koseki, encompassing all of Japan's citizenry, appeared in...