noun
Refers to modern-day descendants of Japan's historical outcast groups (eta/hinin). The term is sensitive and often avoided in polite conversation; 被差別部落民 is a more formal alternative.
See also: 被差別部落民
部落民に対する差別は、今も社会問題として残っている。
Discrimination against burakumin remains a social issue even today.
彼は部落民出身であることを隠して生きてきた。
He has lived hiding the fact that he is of burakumin origin.
Compound of 部落 (buraku, 'hamlet' or 'community') and 民 (min, 'people'). The term originally referred to residents of specific hamlets historically associated with outcast groups during the Edo period.