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  • In Japan the Buraku are a caste of people discriminated against in education, housing, and employment.

    The Genetic Archaeology of Race 2001

  • In Japan the Buraku are a caste of people discriminated against in education, housing, and employment.

    The Genetic Archaeology of Race 2001

  • The Dowa issue in Q10 is the problem of treatment from the old Buraku-min caste as there is still some discrimination against them today.

    Debito on the recent Cabinet Office human rights survey 2007

  • Also, few people outside Japan know of its caste system; the Buraku a minority of up to three million people endure discrimination in education, employment, and marriage.

    ASIAN BUSINESS CUSTOMS & MANNERS MARY MURRAY BOSROCK 2007

  • Also, few people outside Japan know of its caste system; the Buraku a minority of up to three million people endure discrimination in education, employment, and marriage.

    ASIAN BUSINESS CUSTOMS & MANNERS MARY MURRAY BOSROCK 2007

  • Also, few people outside Japan know of its caste system; the Buraku a minority of up to three million people endure discrimination in education, employment, and marriage.

    ASIAN BUSINESS CUSTOMS & MANNERS MARY MURRAY BOSROCK 2007

  • Yet when the Buraku emigrate to the United States, the IQ gap between them and other Japanese vanishes.

    The Genetic Archaeology of Race 2001

  • Yet when the Buraku emigrate to the United States, the IQ gap between them and other Japanese vanishes.

    The Genetic Archaeology of Race 2001

  • India, Sri Lanka and Pakistan it also refers to the Buraku people of Japan, the Osu of Nigeria and certain groups in Senegal and

    ANC Daily News Briefing 2001

  • Performed with a single Buraku-style puppet, about three feet tall, with a live score by Dan Moses Schreier for banjo, accordion and fiddle, the 80 minute show traces the mysterious outlines of Disfarmer's last days on earth-drinking beer, writing a disturbing letter to his foster nephew, and stopping by the grocery for his ritual resetting of the store's barometer.

    Gothamist 2009

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