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Encyclopedia > Buraku Liberation League

Buraku Liberation League (部落解放同盟, Buraku Kaihou Doumei) is one of the burakumin's rights groups in Japan. Burakumin (部落民, buraku community + min people), or hisabetsu buraku (被差別部落 discriminated communities) is a social minority group. ... Human rights are rights which some hold to be inalienable and belonging to all humans. ...


The BLL is called as extremist from JCP, and some BLL activists have been arrested for violence. The Japanese Communist Party (JCP) (日本共産党), in Japanese known as Nihon Kyōsan-tō is a political party of Japan based on communism. ...


Its origin is The National Levelers Association (全国水平社, Zenkoku Suiheisha), founded in 1922. But in 1942, some of the leading activists including Asada Zennosuke (朝田善之助) were recruited to the military. The National Levelers Association disbanded in the same year. 1922 was a common year starting on Sunday (see link for calendar). ... This article is about the year. ...


In 1946, the ex-members of The National Levelers Association formed The Buraku Liberation National Committee (部落解放全国委員会, Buraku Kaihou Zenkoku Iinkai). 1946 was a common year starting on Tuesday. ...


In 1955, The Buraku Liberation National Committee was renamed the Buraku Liberation League (BLL). 1955 is a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ...


But in 1966, a charismatic leader, Matsumoto Jiichiro (松本治一郎) passed away. Around the same time, the BLL purged the members who were against the leaders' decision that the subsidy to the burakumin should be limited to the BLL members only. (There are many burakumin who do not join the BLL.) Asada played a major role in this purge. 1966 was a common year starting on Saturday (link goes to calendar) // Events January January 1 - In a coup, Colonel Jean-Bédel Bokassa ousts president David Dacko and takes over the Central African Republic. ... Charismatic is an umbrella term used to describe those Christians who believe that the manifestations of the Holy Spirit seen in the first century Christian Church, such as speaking in tongues, healing and miracles, are available to contemporary Christians and ought to be experienced and practiced today. ... In history and political science, to purge is to remove undesirable people from a government, political party, profession, or from community/society as a whole, usually by violent means. ...


And thus the ex-members of the BLL formed the Buraku Liberation League Normalization National Liaison Conference (部落解放同盟正常化全国連絡会議, Seijoukaren; Buraku Kaihou Doumei Seijouka Zenkoku Renraku Kaigi) in 1970. This is the predecessor of All Japan Federation of Buraku Liberation Movement (全国部落解放運動連合会, Zenkairen; Zenkoku Buraku Kaihou Undou Rengoukai). 1970 was a common year starting on Thursday. ...


In 1990, Karel van Wolfren criticized the BLL in a book named "The Enigma of Japanese Power", so the BLL demanded the publisher to stop publication of the book, and van Wolfren condemned this incident as "an international scandal". 1990 is a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar. ...


In 1988, the BLL formed IMADR (International Movement Against All Forms of Discrimination and Racism). The BLL wanted IMADR to be authorized as a UN NGO (United Nations Non-Government Organization), but in 1991, the All Japan Federation of Buraku Liberation Movement informed the United Nations about the crimes the BLL had committed. 1988 is a leap year starting on a Friday of the Gregorian calendar. ... The United Nations, or UN, is an international organization established in 1945 and now made up of 191 member states, which includes virtually all internationally recognized independent countries. ...


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The proportion of entries of the Buraku people to high school and universities was only half that of the general public 20 years ago, but the difference is now much less: the difference in the proportion of entries to high schools is 7 percent, and in universities, 11 percent.
The proportion of couples, one of whom is from outside the Buraku is highest at 60.2 percent in their twenties, and the lowest, 15.8 percent, in their seventies.
 The Buraku in Kibi Town were about 10 percent of the population of the whole town as of 1970, 74.1 percent ot' the houses were inferior, and the average number of rooms per house in the Buraku was 35, while that of the town was 4.7.
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