Burakumin
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Burakumin are a historically marginalized social group in Japan. Their ancestors were outcastes of the pre-modern era who were associated with occupations considered impure or tainted by death, such a
Staged photo by Suzuki Shin'ichi I depicting burakumin leather workers, 1873
17th-century painting depicting a buraku outside the walls of Kyoto
Text of the 1871 Liberation Declaration (Kaihōrei)
Suiheisha members in 1924
Rentarō Mikuni
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Rentarō Mikuni was a Japanese actor and film director. He starred in several films of Keisuke Kinoshita, Mikio Naruse, Tadashi Imai, Shōhei Imamura, Tomu Uchida and many others. Mikuni received numero
Burakumin
…Toru Matsuoka, politician of the Minshutō Party of Japan, a member of the House of Councillors in the Diet (national legislature) Rentarō Mikuni, actor Manabu Miyazaki, writer, social critic and public figure…
Mikuni, c. 1950s
Mikuni in 1954