Masako Murakoshi
NPO Staff

"I married without hesitation into my husband’s family, which is from a marginalized Buraku. I did this despite the disapproval of my parents: I was confident that I didn’t have any sense of discrimination.

One day, when my child was in nursery school, I went to a lecture and was startled from the fact that discrimination still exists in ignorance and apathy. 

I was thinking it had nothing to do
with me because I had no sense of discrimination. But I realized that my child was born in a Buraku and my apathy could cause discrimination against my own child.

Then, I started to liberate myself
from the sense of discrimination.
By recognizing my own sense of discrimination, I became capable of fighting against the discrimination of others. But I didn’t achieve the change by myself.

There have been many friends around me, and they helped make me aware of it.
And now, I’m living every single day with enthusiasm in both work and in my private life."