After the Emancipation Edict was issued, some peasants rioted to protest it in more than 20 villages in western Japan. They refused to be placed in the same rank as Buraku people and demanded the retraction of the Edict. Rioting peasants entered some Buraku villages and set fires that resulting in the deaths of many residents.

contributed by the Osaka Human Rights Museum, cooperated by Satoshi Uesugi

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