It is easy to assume that Japan is a homogeneous country; and to some extent, that is true. However, it is a slippery slope to subscribe to this idea, because it tends to forget that there are millions of individuals who belong to other minority groups within the country: the Ainu, the resident Koreans, or us foreigners. However, today, we would like to bring the attention to the case of the Burakumin - the largest minority group that once was at the bottom of the social order during feudal Japan. Due to their history of being at the bottom, modern Burakumin continues to be victims of stigmatization and discrimination in contemporary Japanese society. What was the story of the Burakumin? How did they become marked as different? How is it like living with a stigmatized identity?