Editing Burakumin (section)

=== Social discrimination ===
Cases of social discrimination against residents of {{transliteration|ja|buraku}} areas are still an issue in certain regions. Outside of the [[Kansai]] region, people in general are often not aware of the issues experienced by those of {{transliteration|ja|buraku}} ancestry, and if they are, this awareness may only be awareness of the history of feudal Japan. Due to the sensitive nature of the topic and the campaigns by the [[Buraku Liberation League]] to remove any references in the media that may propagate discrimination against them, the issue is rarely discussed in the media.<ref>{{cite magazine |title=From the Cutting Room |magazine=[[Far Eastern Economic Review]] |date=July 9, 1992 |pages=28–29|first=Robert|last=Guest}}</ref>

Prejudice against {{transliteration|ja|buraku}} most often manifests itself in the form of marriage discrimination and sometimes in [[Employment discrimination|employment]]. Traditionalist families have been known to check on the backgrounds of potential in-laws to identify people of {{transliteration|ja|buraku}} ancestry. These checks are now illegal, and marriage discrimination is diminishing; Nadamoto Masahisa of the Buraku History Institute estimates that between 60 and 80% of {{transliteration|ja|burakumin}} marry a non-{{transliteration|ja|burakumin}}, whereas for people born during the late 1930s and early 1940s, the rate was 10%.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.nancho.net/kyoto/nadamoto.html|title = Kyoto Ijin: Nadamoto Masahisa}}</ref> Over the past decades, the number of marriages between {{transliteration|ja|burakumin}} and non-{{transliteration|ja|burakumin}} have increased, and opinion polls have shown a decrease in the number of Japanese willing to state they would discriminate against {{transliteration|ja|burakumin}}.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Morgan |first1=Charlie V. |title=A Case Study of Buraku and Non-Buraku Couples in Japan |journal=Journal of Comparative Family Studies |date=2007 |volume=38 |issue=1 |pages=31–54 |doi=10.3138/jcfs.38.1.31 |jstor=41604121 |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/41604121 |access-date=12 January 2023}}</ref>

Many companies were known to have used lists of {{transliteration|ja|buraku}} addresses that were developed first in 1975 to exclude the {{transliteration|ja|burakumin}}. The average income of a {{transliteration|ja|buraku}} family was significantly less than the national average (60% in 1992).<ref name=guest>{{cite magazine |title=A tale of two sisters |magazine=Far Eastern Economic Review |date=July 9, 1992 |pages=28–29|first=Robert|last=Guest}}</ref>

Cases of continuing social discrimination are known to occur mainly in western Japan, particularly in the [[Osaka]], [[Kyoto]], [[Hyōgo Prefecture|Hyogo]], and [[Hiroshima]] regions, where many people, especially the older generation, stereotype {{transliteration|ja|buraku}} residents (whatever their ancestry) and associate them with squalor, unemployment and criminality.<ref>{{cite web |author=Alastair McLaughlan |title=Japan's Burakumin: An Introduction |website=Japan Focus |archive-date=April 30, 2006 |access-date=May 8, 2006 |url=http://japanfocus.org/article.asp?id%3D485 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060430222434/http://japanfocus.org/article.asp?id=485 }}</ref>

No {{transliteration|ja|burakumin}} communities were identified in the following [[Prefectures of Japan|prefectures]]: [[Hokkaido]], [[Aomori Prefecture|Aomori]], [[Iwate Prefecture|Iwate]], [[Miyagi Prefecture|Miyagi]], [[Akita Prefecture|Akita]], [[Yamagata Prefecture|Yamagata]], [[Fukushima Prefecture|Fukushima]], [[Tokyo]], [[Toyama Prefecture|Toyama]], [[Ishikawa Prefecture|Ishikawa]], and [[Okinawa Prefecture|Okinawa]].<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://blhrri.org/nyumon/yougo/nyumon_yougo_02.htm |script-title=ja:同和地区 |title=Dōwa chiku |trans-title=Dōwa district |language=ja |publisher=Buraku Liberation and Human Rights Research Institute |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060522103357/http://blhrri.org/nyumon/yougo/nyumon_yougo_02.htm |archive-date=May 22, 2006}}</ref>