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page 1Discrimination in Japan

burakumin
thumb|Staged photo by Suzuki Shin'ichi I depicting burakumin leather workers, 1873
Burakumin (, "people of the hamlet/village") are an outcaste group in Japan, residing at the bottom of the traditional Japanese social hierarchy. The burakumin's ancestors were outcastes of the pre-modern era, primarily from the Edo period, who were associated with occupations considered impure or tainted by death, such as executioners, undertakers, slaughterhouse workers, butchers, or tanners. They traditionally lived in their own hamlets and neighbourhoods. Although legally liberated in 1871 with the abolition
Sagamihara stabbings
Mass hate crime in Japan

Utako Okamoto
Japanese medical doctor and scientist

San'ya
is an area in the Taitō and Arakawa wards of Tokyo, located south of the Namidabashi intersection, around the Yoshino-dori. A neighborhood named "San'ya" existed until 1966, but the area was renamed and split between several neighborhoods.
gender inequality in Japan
article focusing on gender equality in Japan.
blood tax riots
riots against military conscription in Japan, 1873