assimilation district; area targeted for antidiscrimination measures; burakumin area
name given to the lowest rank of the Japanese caste system after its abolition
Burakumin (modern-day descendants of Japan's feudal outcast group)
Buraku Liberation Movement
worthless; pointless; useless
oil cake (fertilizer made of oily vegetable dregs); deep-fried meat (esp. beef offal) resembling a pork rind
udon soup containing deep-fried beef offal
Special Higher Police (1911-1945); police unit controlling political thought and expression
front company (for an organized crime operation)
Leghorn (var. of chicken)
social integration (esp. of burakumin); assimilation; burakumin
instructor at a correctional facility (esp. juvenile detention centre)
Burakumin (modern-day descendants of Japan's feudal outcast group)
to take by deception; to defraud someone of; to swindle someone out of; to cheat someone out of
newt (esp. the Japanese fire belly newt, Cynops pyrrhogaster)
intellectually disabled person; mentally disabled person
eta; group comprising the lowest rank of Japan's Edo-period caste system and whose work usually involved handling human bodies or animal carcasses
Yamaraja (king of the world of the dead, who judges the dead)
Hokkaido Prefectural Assembly
anything and everything; just about everything
chopped burdock root (and sometimes carrot) cooked in sugar and soy sauce
slapping on (stamp, sticker); flopping down
boards covering a ditch (drainage, sewage, etc.); grassroots (e.g. campaign); door-to-door; on the ground