Question

In feudal Japan, leather tanners were. Japan’s equivalent of ‘untouchables’ (lower status in the Japanese caste system than even farmers).

Answer 1

Japan though has emerged as a society being harmonius and homogenous, there exists a hidden exception of being untouchables. It has it's origin in the feudal Japan, during the period from 1603- 1867, wherein the social caste system was officially established based on caste and not on economical status. The lowest rung were an an outcast group ho were subjected to severe discrimination and ostracism. These people were forced to show signs of subservience, physical contact was forbidden and even they were taxed and tried discriminately. These include people working in slaughter houses, leather tanning industries and other professions deemed as unclean like sanitation workers .