Comments on: Burakumin

By: Political Dynasties: Taro Aso | BLACK TOKYO

Political Dynasties: Taro Aso | BLACK TOKYO — Sun, 02 Nov 2008 08:42:18 +0000

[...] Saigo Takamori and Kido Takayoshi. Okubo, as Finance Minister, ended discrimination against the eta-hinin. He was part of the very important around-the-world Iwakura mission to renegotiate unequal treaties [...]

By: Burakumin y koseki - La sociedad japonesa | Silverchaos2k | Sonic | Sega | Japón | Manga | Anime | Videojuegos

Thu, 21 Feb 2008 12:03:02 +0000

[...] info y fuentes Burakumin (Inglés) Muy interesante por cierto. La sociedad japonesa (Gunkan) Koseki [...]

By: Shingen

Shingen — Sat, 07 Apr 2007 11:05:35 +0000

No problem, I look forward to commenting ;) I did a word count, this post was 4,000 words long... larger than my normal essays! My girlfriend, from Hokkaido, had a similar response. She did not believe that the discrimination was ongoing, although had I have done a post about the Ainu she would have been much more aware. I believe that people from Osaka would probably be most aware of the buraku mondai. There were a couple of things I missed, so I'd like to put them down now... 1. At Yasukuni, while the Koreans and Taiwanese fighting for the Imperial Army are enshrined there, burakumin are not. 2. The discrimination is evident in the political elite, take for instance Taro Aso's comment that I quoted in a previous post:

“We can’t let burakumin like Nonaka become the Japanese Prime Minister.” - Regarding Hiromu Nonaka, a [burakumin].

By: David

David — Sat, 07 Apr 2007 10:44:27 +0000

Very interesting post Shingen! I appreciate all the work you put into it.

I’ve asked my wife (Japanese) about the Burakumin but she didn’t know much about the subject. However, she did say that in high school she was taught that this class of people was “created” to elevate the merchants and common-folks from the bottom ranks.

By the way, thanks for already linking my new blog (canapan.blogspot.com) to your site. I look forward to your comments.

Regards,

By: Shingen

Shingen — Sat, 07 Apr 2007 09:36:42 +0000

This is due to the continuing fallout from the Konishi and the Asukakai affair, right?

By: Ken

Ken — Sat, 07 Apr 2007 00:53:26 +0000

This election cycle is one of the first where Buraku issues are being discussed openly, though it’s really taken political issues to force them to that point, and only where that’s been a flare-up – in Osaka.