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A movement for burakumin rights began in the 1920s, and the Buraku Liberation League was founded in 1946; it has achieved some of its legal goals, including securing restrictions on third-party access to family registries. Notable burakumin include writer Kenji Nakagami and politician Hiromu Nonaka.
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.
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.
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Sue Sumii (住井 すゑ, Sumii Sue, January 7, 1902 – June 16, 1997) was a Japanese social reformer, writer, and novelist. She advocated for victims of discrimination, most notably the Burakumin.
Sennin Buraku takes place in Taoyuan, a small Edo period village, populated solely by Taoist ascetics.The eldest, Lao Shi, conducts research into magic and alchemy, while his disciple Zhi Huang remains more interested in pleasures of the flesh.
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 yakuza are Japanese-born Koreans, and only 10 percent are from non-burakumin Japanese and Chinese ethnic ...