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Japan Minorities
Japanese society, with its ideology of homogeneity, has
traditionally been intolerant of ethnic and other
differences.
People identified as different might be considered
"polluted"--the
category applied historically to the outcasts of Japan,
particularly the hisabetsu buraku, "discriminated
communities," often called burakumin, a term some
find
offensive--and thus not suitable as marriage partners or
employees.
Men or women of mixed ancestry, those with family
histories of
certain diseases, and atomic bomb survivors of Hiroshima
and
Nagasaki and their descendants, foreigners, and members of
minority
groups faced discrimination in a variety of forms.
Data as of January 1994
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