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JeffLee
Why are they "Pro North Korean" today if they themselves acknowledge that North Korea is a living hell? These are the same people who have been keeping that evil regime and its gulags running by regular shipments of money and merchandise from Japan.
Yes, they had a tragic history, but my sympathies toward them are limited.
oldsanno
Of course the author doesn't list any examples. I'll bet he/she cannot list any examples.
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oldsanno
The quote is from a letter sent by Elizabeth Ryan, a court reporter stationed in Kobe from 1947-1948, to her family in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. This shows that things haven't changed that much. Koreans don't get as much of a free ride as they did right after the war. Japanese can speak about Koreans without fear of reprisals.
But Koreans still think that they should occupy and control Japan.
zenkan
Ethnic Koreans living in Japan who support North Korea hope for peaceful unification and fairness for all. They are not in favour of repressive government - they are supporting fellow nationals in the face of hardship. Do the posters here live in a plastic bubble? The degree of misunderstanding is, frankly, breathtaking.
tmarie
Of course the author doesn't list any examples. I'll bet he/she cannot list any examples.
Perhaps the author wanted to focus on the movie rather than state the obvious? You've got to be blind not to see how Koreans born and raised here are treated differently than the Japanese born and raised here.
oldsanno
Because Koreans were treated special and got financial aid Japanese could not receive. Yes there was discrimination that favored the Koreans.
Koreans didn't have to worry that their neighbor may assist a North Korean spy(neighbor) to kidnap their child or kill them to steal their identity.
tmarie
Old, perhaps you could look into discrimination in job hunting, marriage, finding an apartment, bullying in schools.... Heck, why not look at what happened in Tokyo after the Great Kanto Earthquake and tell me that life has always been rosy for these Koreans. You're refusal to open your eyes is exactly why Japan has such a horrible rep for being xenophobic and unsympathetic.
oldsanno
Softbank, pachinko parlors, and millions sent to NK with no/menial jobs???
Koreans cannot marry?
Koreans don't have apts?
You're refusal to open your eyes is the real problem.
Cos
She explained in an interview about her family, why they migrated to Japan and why they chose to support the North and how she has her own brothers living in NK now. It's really interesting. Here : http://korientation.de/2012/03/interview-with-filmmaker-yang-yonghi/