Buraku Liberation League


The Buraku Liberation League is one of the burakumin's rights groups in Japan. Buraku are members of diverse social groups, descendants of outcast communities of the Japanese feudal era.

History

Pre-World War II period

The origin of the Buraku Liberation League is the National Levelers Association, founded in 1922. However, in 1942, some of the leading activists, including Asada Zennosuke, were recruited into the military. The National Levelers Association disbanded in the same year.

Post-World War II period

In 1946, the ex-members of the National Levelers Association formed the Buraku Liberation National Committee. In 1955, it was renamed the Buraku Liberation League.
In 1966, one of the leaders, Jiichirō Matsumoto, died. 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. Asada played a major role in this purge. Thus, the ex-members of the BLL formed the Buraku Liberation League Normalization National Liaison Conference in 1970. This was the predecessor of the All Japan Federation of Buraku Liberation Movement.

Concession problems

In response to the denuclearization struggle "The reason for fear is not by birth, but because a powerful pressure group because of hanging up and condemnation. It has been said that self-purpose groups fear losing their meaning of existence by achieving their original purpose since late 1960s. "
Akira Koike, a politician and vice chair of the Japanese Communist Party, also said that "the Dowa problem has already been resolved basically by residents' endeavor, continuing unfair dowa measures itself will create new prejudice" and criticized the clamor. He clarified that such criticism is regarded as "discrimination" is a complete wrong after Suppression of free speech by Minister of Reconstruction Ryu Matsumoto concurrently serving as a vice chairperson of Buraku Liberation League.
He criticized Matsumoto's intimidating warning, "Your company is over if you write my words as the essence of the liberation alliance's suppression of free speech."