It was sent to 500 households in Osaka alone. Like others in the Yao district of the Japanese port city, Masako is a descendant of the Burakumin, the caste once solely responsible for performing ...

Today, official statistics put the number of burakumin at around 1.2 million, with unofficial estimates as high as 3 million. Despite the numbers, the issue is something of a taboo in Japan ...

The reason was unstated but well understood: Aoki is a descendant of Japan's former burakumin outcast class, a distinction that has brought his family a lifetime of ridicule, discrimination and abuse.

The reason was unstated but well-understood: Aoki is a descendant of Japan’s former “burakumin” outcast class, a distinction that has brought his family a lifetime of ridicule ...

We have to protect them." Like many in the abattoir because of his profession, Miyazaki is associated with the Burakumin, Japan's "untouchable" class. Burakumin, meaning "hamlet people", dates ...

But critics fear the law doesn't go far enough. Here are some basic questions and answers about the burakumin and the new law. In a time of both misinformation and too much information ...

My mother was from a burakumin family... There was huge opposition from my father’s family…. Many things added up over time, leading up to divorce. Now lecturing at Kindai University in Osaka ...

Roger Witherspoon reports on the inhumane conditions facing the Burakumin, a social minority in Japan that has faced centuries of discrimination. JAPAN OF old did not have a captive black ...

The Japanese word burakumin literally translates as “village people”—and the burakumin are outcasts in Japanese society. Discriminated against since the 15th century, the burakumin were ...

We have to protect them." Like many in the abattoir because of his profession, Miyazaki is associated with the Burakumin, Japan's "untouchable" class. Burakumin, meaning "hamlet people", dates ...