Editing Burakumin (section)

=== Demographics ===
The number of {{transliteration|ja|burakumin}} asserted to be living in modern Japan varies from source to source. Japanese government statistics show the number of residents of assimilation districts who claim {{transliteration|ja|buraku}} ancestry, whereas the [[Buraku Liberation League]] (BLL) figures are estimates of the total number of descendants of all former and current {{transliteration|ja|buraku}} residents, including current residents without any {{transliteration|ja|buraku}} ancestry.

A 1993 report by the Japanese government counted 4,533 {{nihongo3|assimilation districts|同和地区|dōwa chiku}} throughout the country. Most were located in western Japan, while none were located in [[Hokkaido]] and [[Tōhoku]]. About three quarters of the districts are in rural areas. The size of each community ranged from less than five households to more than 1,000 households.<ref>{{cite web |author1=野口道彦 |script-title=ja:同和地区 |website=Buraku Liberation and Human Rights Research Institute |language=ja |access-date=February 2, 2020 |url=http://blhrri.org/nyumon/yougo/nyumon_yougo_02.htm |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060522103357/http://blhrri.org/nyumon/yougo/nyumon_yougo_02.htm |archive-date=May 22, 2006 }}</ref>

It is estimated that around 1,000 ''buraku'' communities chose not to register as {{transliteration|ja|dōwa chiku}}, wanting to avoid the negative attention that could come from explicitly declaring themselves {{transliteration|ja|burakumin}}.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Hankins |first1=Joseph D |title=Working Skin: Making Leather, Making a Multicultural Japan |date=2014 |publisher=University of California Press |isbn=9780520959163 |page=92}}</ref> BLL has extrapolated Meiji-era figures to arrive at an estimate of nearly three million {{transliteration|ja|burakumin}}.<ref>{{Cite journal |url=http://jbe.gold.ac.uk/7/alldritt001.html |title=The Burakumin: The Complicity of Japanese Buddhism in Oppression and an Opportunity for Liberation |author=Leslie D. Alldritt |journal=Journal of Buddhist Ethics |date=July 2000 |issn=1076-9005 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20051125094650/http://jbe.gold.ac.uk/7/alldritt001.html |archive-date=November 25, 2005 }}</ref> In some areas, {{transliteration|ja|burakumin}} are in a majority; per a 1997 report, they accounted for more than 70 percent of all residents of [[Yoshikawa, Kōchi|Yoshikawa]] (now [[Kōnan, Kōchi|Kōnan]]) in [[Kōchi Prefecture]]. In [[Oto, Fukuoka|Ōtō]], [[Fukuoka Prefecture]], they accounted for more than 60 percent.<ref>{{cite book|script-title=ja:図説 今日の部落差別 各地の実態調査結果より |trans-title=Illustrated Today's Buraku Discrimination Based on Survey Results in Various Regions |title=Zusetsu kyō no buraku sabetsu kakuchi no jittai chōsa kekka yori |pages=31 |date=March 15, 1997 |publisher=[[:ja:部落解放・人権研究所|BLHRRI]] |isbn=4-7592-0193-9 |language=ja}}</ref>

According to a survey performed by the [[Tokyo Metropolitan Government]] during 2003, 76% of Tokyo residents would not change their opinion of a close neighbor whom they discovered to be a {{transliteration|ja|burakumin}}; 4.9% of respondents, on the other hand, would actively avoid a {{transliteration|ja|burakumin}} neighbor. There is still a [[social stigma]] for being a resident of certain areas associated traditionally with the {{transliteration|ja|burakumin}}, and some lingering [[Ethnic issues in Japan|discrimination]] in matters such as [[Marriage in Japan|marriage]] and [[Economy of Japan|employment]].<ref>{{cite web |date=March 23, 2003 |script-title=ja:東京の被差別部落の歴史と現状・全文 |title=Tōkyō no hisabetsuburaku no rekishi to genjō zenbun |trans-title=The History and Present Situation of Discriminated Buraku in Tokyo Full Text |language=ja |location=Tokyo |publisher=Buraku Liberation League |access-date=April 29, 2010 |archive-date=June 6, 2011 |url=http://www.asahi-net.or.jp/~mg5s-hsgw/tkburaku/history/tkbtxt.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110606173704/http://www.asahi-net.or.jp/~mg5s-hsgw/tkburaku/history/tkbtxt.html}}</ref>