About a dozen groups in Osaka in western Japan are based in a marginalized community known as Buraku. The people of this community are presumably the descendants of those who were engaged in work ...

"Buraku" or "Buraku-min" are the terms used for ethnic Japanese people who are believed to descend from the pre-Meiji castes. Today, neither "Buraku" nor "Burakumin" exist anymore in terms of laws ...

During his trial, he had claimed he had faced discrimination directed at "buraku," or former outcast communities. He was eventually released on parole in 1994. He had contracted pneumonia at the ...

She was a second-generation ethnic Korean born in a “buraku” community in Osaka’s Nishinari Ward where descendants of feudal-era outcasts lived. She was bullied by Japanese children who told ...

OSAKA--A lawsuit was filed with the Osaka District Court to stop a publishing house from posting information online about “buraku” communities that have faced discrimination. The lawsuit was ...