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Do you know what kinds of caste systems there are in Japan? Japan has some major minority groups. They are Burakumin, Okinawans, Ainu and Japanese-born Koreans. Discrimination against many of these groups has its origins in the imperialist and feudal periods in Japan’s history. Japanese expanded their territory into the lands of Ainu and Okinawans. Discrimination from Japanese feudal society also exists against the “outcasts” called the Buraku. Now there are many problems that we have to consider against groups which are Buraku people, Ainu, and Okinawans in Japan. Buraku people or Burakumin are the largest population, which are discriminated since long time ago. They are minority groups of Japanese people who are numbering around 3,000,000 in about 6,000 communities and generally recognized as posterities of outcaste population in the feudal days. Discrimination against Buraku people has been gradually lessoned in terms of living conditions, while it is still practiced in society, with respect to employment, marriage, and education. According to my study in high school, for example, in the employment case, the fact shows the average annual income is 3.8 million yen in Buraku communities.
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