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The term burakumin is derived from buraku (部落), a Japanese term which refers literally to a small, generally rural, commune or hamlet. In the regions of Japan where the burakumin issue is much less publicly prominent, such as Hokkaido and Okinawa, buraku is still used in a non-pejorative sense to refer to any hamlet. [3]
Following the Meiji Restoration of 1868, which overthrew the Tokugawa Shogunate, Japan embarked on a crash course program of modernization.As a prelude to the full abolition of the Tokugawa-era class and status system, outcast status was abolished by the 1871 Burakumin Emancipation Edict, mandatory public schooling for all children was implemented in 1872, and in January 1873, the new Meiji ...
The Buraku Liberation League (部落解放同盟, Buraku Kaihō Dōmei) is a burakumin's rights group in Japan. Buraku are ethnic Japanese and descended from outcast communities of the Japanese feudal era. [1]
Ieyasu founded the Tokugawa Shogunate as a new feudal government of Japan with himself as the shōgun. However, Ieyasu was especially wary of social mobility given that Toyotomi Hideyoshi, one of his peers and a kampaku (Imperial Regent) whom he replaced, was born into a low caste and rose to become Japan's most powerful political figure of the ...
Japan: Burakumin; Korea: Baekjeong in Korea were an "untouchable" group of Korea who traditionally performed jobs of executioner and butcher. [25] Nigeria: Ohuhu and Osu;
Jiichirō Matsumoto (松本 治一郎, Matsumoto Jiichirō, 18 June 1887 – 22 November 1966) was a Japanese politician, businessman, and leader of the Burakumin liberation movement. Born in Fukuoka Prefecture , Matsumoto led the Burakumin liberation movement during its activity, earning himself the title "Father of the Buraku Liberation" from ...
The incident, in which then-24-year-old Kazuo Ishikawa, a man of disputed guilt in the case, was imprisoned for 31 years, highlighted official discrimination against Japan's burakumin caste. Ishikawa was originally sentenced to death by hanging , but his sentence was commuted after a decade on death row to life imprisonment with the possibility ...
According to a 2006 speech by Mitsuhiro Suganuma, a former officer of the Public Security Intelligence Agency, around 60 percent of yakuza members come from burakumin, the descendants of a feudal outcast class and approximately 30 percent of yauza are Japanese-born Koreans, and only 10 percent are from non-burakumin Japanese and Chinese ethnic ...