Japan's Invisible Minority: Better Off Than in Past, but Still Outcasts New York Times November 30, 1995 By Nicholas D. Kristof
one of Japan's open secrets: burakumin and ethnic Koreans dominate the organized crime gangs known as the yakuza. More than three-quarters of the members of the Yamaguchi Gumi, Japan's biggest underworld organization, are said to be burakumin or ethnic Koreans.
