The
Burakumin are a group that is socially discriminated against in Japanese society. The burakumin are
descendants of
outcast communities of the
feudal era, mainly those with occupations considered tainted with death or
ritual impurity, such as butchers,
executioners,
undertakers or
leather workers. They traditionally lived in their own secluded
hamlets and
ghettos. Discrimination against the Burakumin continues into the present day, a legacy of the Japanese
feudal/
caste system.
According to
David E. Kaplan and Alec Dubro,
burakumin account for about 70 percent of the members of
Yamaguchi-gumi, the largest Yakuza syndicate in Japan
.
Mitsuhiro Suganuma, ex-officer of the
Public Security Intelligence Agency, testified that burakumin account for about 60 percent of the members of the entire Yakuza.
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