Despite Japan's claim of homogeneity, two Japanese minority groups can be identified. The largest is known as the hisabetsu buraku, "discriminated communities," descendants of premodern outcast hereditary occupational groups, such as butchers, leatherworkers, and certain entertainers. Discrimination against these occupational groups arose historically because of Buddhist prohibitions against killing and Shinto notions of pollution, as well as governmental attempts at social control. During the Tokugawa period, such people were required to live in special buraku and, like the rest of the population, were bound by sumptuary laws based on the inheritance of social class. The Meiji government abolished must derogatory names applied to these discriminated communities in 1871, but the new laws had little effect on the social discrimination faced by the former outcasts and their descendants. The laws, however, did eliminate the economic monopoly they had over certain occupations.

Although members of these discriminated communities are physically indistinguishable from other Japanese, they often live in urban ghettoes or in the traditional special hamlets in rural areas. Some attempt to pass as ordinary Japanese, but the checks on family background that are often part of marriage arrangements and employment applications make this difficult. Estimates of their number range from 2 million to 4 million, or about 2 to 3 percent of the national population.

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Dammit discrimination.

They'd have to face the problem they created for themselves.

good one crim I didnt know that. theres allso an aboriginal-like tribe in the north. and inside homogenic japan, theres lots of minorities.

good one crim I didnt know that. theres allso an aboriginal-like tribe in the north. and inside homogenic japan, theres lots of minorities.
Yes, that would be the Ainu, who live in isolated communities, though some also live in urban areas. The Ainu are belived to be decended from Japans first inhabitants and are have caucasian features, particularly profuse body hair. Some believe that Ainu are related to native americans.

Yes, that would be the Ainu, who live in isolated communities, though some also live in urban areas. The Ainu are belived to be decended from Japans first inhabitants and are have caucasian features, particularly profuse body hair. Some believe that Ainu are related to native americans.
yea they look a bit like the mongols as well. makes sense, russia is close to japan, in the north.
but poeple on okinawa have an own language as well, and south japanese have maori like features, I noticed there.