Burakumin [部落民] is a Japanese word used to refer to a class in Japan, approximately 3% percent of Japanese people who have suffered intense prejudice due to their social class or lifestyle. During the ...

Like many in the abattoir because of his profession, Miyazaki is associated with the Burakumin, Japan's "untouchable" class. Burakumin, meaning "hamlet people", dates back to the feudal era.

He didn’t hide that he is a burakumin nor did he feel ashamed to tell me his full name – unlike many I tried to interview. Saegoro Yoshida, 89, has lived in Sujin all his life.

Burakumin, meaning “hamlet people”, originally referred to communities made up of supposedly “impure” workers.

The burakumin were considered “unclean” for holding jobs shunned by the wider Shinto and Buddhist society – often ones involving animals, blood or death.

The burakumin are ethnically identical to their compatriots, but are descended from feudal-era workers who were treated as pariahs because they performed work that was considered unclean.

Today, rights groups say the descendants of burakumin make up about 3 million of the country’s 127 million people. But they still face prejudice, based almost entirely on where they live or ...

Burakumin and Shimazaki Tōson's Hakai : images of discrimination in modern Japanese literature by Andersson, Renʹe Publication date 2000 Topics mirror, pdf.yt, Shimazaki, Tōson, 1872-1943, Buraku ...

Google Earth's maps pinpointed several such areas. One village in Tokyo was clearly labelled eta, a now strongly derogatory word for burakumin that literally means “filthy mass”.

Like many in the abattoir because of his profession, Miyazaki is associated with the Burakumin, Japan's "untouchable" class. Burakumin, meaning "hamlet people", dates back to the feudal era.