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The burakumin (部落民, 'hamlet/village people') are a social grouping of Japanese people descended from members of the feudal class associated with kegare (穢れ, 'impurity'), mainly those with occupations related to death such as executioners, gravediggers, slaughterhouse workers, butchers, and tanners. Burakumin are physically ...
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 the Romani people and Cagot in Europe, and the Al-Akhdam in Yemen.
Burakumin (部落民) is a designation of Japanese Second-class status meaning the people who are from a place called a "buraku". "Buraku" basically means a village or small district. "Buraku" basically means a village or small district.
The origin of the Buraku Liberation League is the National Levelers Association (全国水平社, Zenkoku Suiheisha), founded in 1922.However, in 1942, some of the leading activists, including Asada Zennosuke (朝田善之助), were recruited into the military.
Hinin could be adopted by poor commoners and commoners having committed crimes. The Hinin status was hereditary. Unlike Eta, it was possible for the offspring of hinin to rejoin the commoner class, as long as they met some requirements.
Burakumin, in Japan. Cagot, in France and Spain. Caquins of Brittany, in France; Cascarots, an ethnic group in the Spanish Basque country and the French Basque coast sometimes linked to the Cagots. Cleanliness of blood, ethnic discrimination in the Spanish Old Regime. Maragato , in Spain. Melungeons, of America's central Appalachia.
Japan had its own untouchable caste, shunned and ostracised, historically referred to by the insulting term eta, now called burakumin. While modern law has officially abolished the class hierarchy, there are reports of discrimination against the buraku or burakumin underclasses. [54] The burakumin are regarded as "ostracised". [55]
Kenji Nakagami (中上健次, Nakagami Kenji, August 2, 1946 – August 12, 1992) was a Japanese novelist and essayist.He is well known as the first, and so far the only, post-war Japanese writer to identify himself publicly as a Burakumin, a member of one of Japan's long-suffering outcaste groups.