Kaiho Rei (Emancipation Edict) is the edict of Dajokan (The Grand Council of State) that mainly announced the abolition of the social status system like Eta (a status of group who were the lowest rank of Japan's Edo-period caste system and usually involved in handling human bodies or animal carcasses) and Hinin (a status of group who were the lowest rank of Japan's Edo-period caste system and often ex-convicts or vagrants) made by the Meiji Government on October 12, 1871.
解放令（かいほうれい）とは、明治4年8月28日(旧暦)（1871年10月12日）に明治政府が行った穢多非人等の身分の廃止などの旨を記した太政官布告である。