Japan’s Outcasts Still Wait for Acceptance (New York Times)
"[...]Ms. Tanaka encountered discrimination only when she began going to high school in another ward. One time, while she was visiting a friend’s house, the grandparents invited her to stay over for lunch.
"'The atmosphere was pleasant in the beginning, but then they asked me where I lived,' she said. 'When I told them, the grandfather put down his chopsticks right away and went upstairs.'
"A generation ago, most buraku married other buraku. But by the 1990s, when Ms. Tanaka met her future husband, who is not a buraku, marriages to outsiders were becoming more common."
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