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Film shows family torn by N Korea-Japan relocation program

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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.

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where Koreans faced widespread discrimination.

Of course the author doesn't list any examples. I'll bet he/she cannot list any examples.

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The Koreans have been a pain in the neck all along. They have some strange notion that they are the Occupationaires, and really give these Japs a hard time. They go into shops and board street cars with no intention of paying. The poor Jap was scared to do anything about it because he got beat up.

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.

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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.

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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.

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and easing a welfare burden for Tokyo

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.

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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.

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bullying in schools ?? They have their own schools by their choice.

job hunting

Softbank, pachinko parlors, and millions sent to NK with no/menial jobs???

marriage

Koreans cannot marry?

apartment

Koreans don't have apts?

You're refusal to open your eyes is the real problem.

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Why are they "Pro North Korean" today if they themselves acknowledge that North Korea is a living hell?

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/

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