Word: murakoshi
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Dates: during 1973-1973
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...less well educated than their countrymen, and their children test 16 IQ points lower than other Japanese.* About 7% of buraku families are on relief, more than twice the national average, and juvenile delinquency is 3/2 times higher among them than among other Japanese youths. According to Sueo Murakoshi, an outcast who surmounted the system to become a professor of sociology at Osaka City University and secretary-general of the Buraku Problem Research Institute: "Some high school classes attended by buraku boys have turned into blackboard jungles." On the island of Shikoku, angry outcasts have beaten up their teachers...
...buraku-min, but the group has made few social gains. Young Japanese are, in fact, less prejudiced than their elders, and there are more mixed marriages than formerly. But few religious or intellectual leaders are strongly behind integration-partly because they are ashamed to admit that segregation exists. Professor Murakoshi sees the salvation of the outcasts only in a wholly unrealistic goal-an end to the monarchy, which even in its postwar, watered-down form remains the country's most revered institution. As Murakoshi sees it, the Emperor symbolizes and enforces the status quo in the Japanese system...
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