The Buraku Liberation League provides evening classes for Burakumin. Some of these students cannot write a single Japanese character, despite the government's claim of a 99.9 literacy rate in Japan (c. 1977).

From: Yoshino, I. Roger and Murakoshi, Sueo. The Invisible Visible Minority: Japan's Burakumin. Osaka: Buraku Kaiho Kenkyusho, 1977.