A slaughterhouse in Matsubara, near Osaska in Japan
Beneath the surface of modern, homogenous Japan, festers an ancient prejudice against a minority who can be distinguished from the rest of the population only by genealogical detectives. The buraku people are descendents of the Eta people and traditionally carried out so-called impure jobs like butchery and tanning.
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