Japan's hidden caste of untouchables - BBC News

posted by  banzaitokyo | 8 years, 5 months ago

Japan has a reputation of being a homogeneous, mostly harmonious society. There are few foreigners, linguistic differences are rare and on the surface class distinctions are largely absent. But, as Mike Sunda discovered, there is one, often hidden, exception: Japan's untouchables.

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