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...
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Edo society (section Burakumin)
peasant, craftsmen, and merchant classes, and various "untouchable" or Burakumin groups. The Tokugawa shogunate ruled by dividing the people into four...
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continued treating them as burakumin. Today, fewer people are discriminate towards burakumin, however, the term burakumin is still recognized as a discriminating...
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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...
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Blood tax riots (category Burakumin)
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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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...
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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...
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(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...
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