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Wikipedia: Burakumin (部落民, "section of the fallen people") are a Japanese social minority group. The burakumin are one of the main minority groups in Japan, along with the Ainu of Hokkaidō, the Ryukyuans of Okinawa and Japanese residents of Korean and Chinese descent. The burakumin are descendants of outcast communities of the feudal era, which mainly comprised those with occupations considered "tainted" with death or ritual impurity (such as executioners, undertakers, workers in slaughterhouses, butchers or tanners), and traditionally lived in their own secluded hamlets and ghettos.
![[Train station graffiti describing Hamano Station in Hamanochō, Chūō]](http://images.ookaboo.com/photo/s/Hamano_Etamura_s.jpg "Train station graffiti describing Hamano Station in Hamanochō, Chūō")
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![[The most famous leader of the BLL, Jiichirō Matsumoto , who was born a burakumin in Fukuoka]](http://images.ookaboo.com/photo/s/Jiichiro_Matumoto_s.jpg "The most famous leader of the BLL, Jiichirō Matsumoto , who was born a burakumin in Fukuoka")
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