Opera Singer Chikako Watanabe
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Japan: Portraits of Outcast People is a feature story by Japan's Masaru Goto appearing on Gaia Photos.
As Goto explains, "The Buraku-Min (tribal people) composes one of the main minority groups in Japan, along with the Ainu of Hokkaidōand and the Ryukyuans of Okinawa. Despite being thoroughly Japanese, racially and ethnically, the Buraku-Min still face discrimination and struggle under the weight of their shared history in Japan."
Masaru Goto offers brief biographical sketches of a variety of Buraku people in Japan in his photo essay Japan: Portraits of Outcast People, now appearing on Gaia Photos, a new international photography source comprised of 41 photojournalists from around the world whose mission is to promote quality and diversity in documentary photography.
Here is opera singer Chikako Watanabe's (seen above) story: "In addition to being an opera singer, I give concerts for human rights with a hope to “create a society where everyone can live to fulfill their dreams without unjust interference by anyone”. In these concerts all over Japan, the supportive audiences give me great energy as well."
In 2007, Watanabe performed at a concert held on Human Rights Day at the UN Hall in New York that celebrated the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. The concert for anti-discrimination was dedicated to three groups, Blacks, Jews, and the Buraku people of Japan.
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Photo © Masaru Goto All Rights Reserved
Japan: Portraits of Outcast People is a feature story by Japan's Masaru Goto appearing on Gaia Photos.
As Goto explains, "The Buraku-Min (tribal people) composes one of the main minority groups in Japan, along with the Ainu of Hokkaidōand and the Ryukyuans of Okinawa. Despite being thoroughly Japanese, racially and ethnically, the Buraku-Min still face discrimination and struggle under the weight of their shared history in Japan."
Masaru Goto offers brief biographical sketches of a variety of Buraku people in Japan in his photo essay Japan: Portraits of Outcast People, now appearing on Gaia Photos, a new international photography source comprised of 41 photojournalists from around the world whose mission is to promote quality and diversity in documentary photography.
Here is opera singer Chikako Watanabe's (seen above) story: "In addition to being an opera singer, I give concerts for human rights with a hope to “create a society where everyone can live to fulfill their dreams without unjust interference by anyone”. In these concerts all over Japan, the supportive audiences give me great energy as well."
In 2007, Watanabe performed at a concert held on Human Rights Day at the UN Hall in New York that celebrated the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. The concert for anti-discrimination was dedicated to three groups, Blacks, Jews, and the Buraku people of Japan.
Please visit us and see another feature story by Masaru Goto now appearing on Gaia Photos.
Please follow the rest of the Gaia Photos photographers to see our continually updated new features page too!
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