>>254 >>198に有るNYTimesの記事を読むとそうでも無いみたいだよ。
ただ、現在日本駐在のNYTimes記者は、元在日で反日記事しか書かない大西哲光だから当てに出来ないかも?
Today almost two-thirds of burakumin (pronounced boo-RAH-koo-min) say in opinion polls that they have never encountered discrimination. About 73 percent now marry non-burakumin,
and most dismiss the possibility that the Japanese police might treat burakumin unfairly.
"I haven't ever encountered discrimination myself," said Masuharu Okuda, a prosperous 53-year-old who was standing outside his dry-cleaning shop in a burakumin neighborhood in Kyoto.
The burakumin are also invisible because there is a virtual taboo on discussing the issue. Newspapers and television stations virtually never mention the word buraku,
partly because buraku organizations have sometimes denounced publishers for insensitivity when they have written about buraku issues.
Some junior high school students in the town of Omiya, where there are many buraku, looked puzzled when the topic of burakumin came up.
"Who are they?" a teen-age girl asked. "I've never heard of them."
Single parents are almost twice as common in the buraku as in the nation as a whole. Five percent of burakumin are on welfare, seven times the rate in the overall population.
A 35-year-old study in Japan found that buraku children had lower I.Q.'s than non-buraku children in the same public schools.
the issue is so sensitive that no Japanese scholars have conducted research on it. One rare statistical study,
conducted by Americans found that burakumin youths were three times as likely as non-buraku youths to be arrested for crimes.
one of Japan's open secrets: burakumin and ethnic Koreans dominate the organized crime gangs known as the yakuza.
More than three-quarters of the members of the Yamaguchi Gumi, Japan's biggest underworld organization, are said to be burakumin or ethnic Koreans.