Other burakumin have served long sentences, sometimes on death row, but ultimately been proved innocent. More than 1.3 million people signed a petition seeking a new trial and his release.

Despite the official abolition of the caste system in the late 19th century during the Meiji Restoration, the shadow of discrimination against the Burakumin lingers in contemporary Japan, manifesting ...

Yujiro Komatsu, Tomoko Moriya, and brothers Takamoto and Masatomo Ariga founded Blackmeans in 2008. It is inspired by the name "burakumin," which refers to 18th-century Japanese leatherworkers ...

100 years later, Japan still conceals the massacre of Koreans after the 1923 earthquake In the immediate aftermath of the earthquake that killed more than 100,000 people, hundreds of Koreans ...

The burakumin still feel the impact of centuries-old discrimination, though many Japanese deny these prejudices still exist.

One of the features focused on Japan's ostracised "untouchable" burakumin community. Read more at straitstimes.com.

The new documentary film that explores the discrimination against a group of people – commonly called “the burakumin” – who were classed into lowly groups and segregated from the rest of Japanese ...

But descendants of Burakumin still face discrimination in society however, they still dominate the crime syndicate. The group's crimes include drug dealing extortion sex work and trafficking.

Some Japanese netizens occasionally deliberately released information like where "burakumin" live and their names, showing no respect for their personal safety or privacy.