The burakumin (部落民, 'hamlet/village people') are the Japanese people commonly believed to be descended from members of the pre-Meiji feudal class which...

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...

mostly of Japanese descent are also among Japan's small minority groups. Burakumin make up a social minority group. The Japanese language is Japan's de facto...

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

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...

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...

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...

(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...