Big trouble in Little Korea: spiral of race hate grips Tokyo

[homasse]

Big trouble in Little Korea: spiral of race hate grips Tokyo
Tokyo residents say they are living in fear amid rising violence after Korean and Japanese leaders fuelled historic nationalist sentimentsKim Dong-sun says she is often frightened to walk home after work, but particularly on Sundays - one of the busiest of the week in the Shin-Okubo

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[the_physicist]

Japan is home to an estimated 600,000 Koreans, with the vast majority the descendants of labourers brought to Japan during the years of its colonial rule of the Korean peninsula.

This is a fact that those anti-Korean protesters probably 'conveniently forget'. >_>

edit: that sentence needed rearranging for the right meaning to be clear.

[evilnel]

Dear Japan: Learn your lessons from history. For real. This nationalist/racial superiority stuff really doesn't end well for you.

I feel bad for the Korean population... it must be very scary to be such a minority amidst such hatred. :/

[tabaqui]

Bah. I just...can't imagine such hatred that you are willing to stand up in public and yell that your neighbors should 'die die die'. WTF.

I hope the older heads prevail. A violent confrontation would be ugly as hell. I like that the anti-hate-group managed to get more people there than the hate group.

[astridmyrna]

The group also alleges members of the communities conceal their true identity and nationality by taking a Japanese name as an "alias".

Oh. I wonder why. It's not like there's a hate group that's protesting for the extermination of Koreans--OH WAIT.

[__nocturna]

I follow Japanese baseball and have seen this weird phenomena that goes on, where some people in Japan will come up with these weird theories that so-and-so famous Japanese person is really a Korean who is just pretending to be a Japanese, bla bla bla... Its pretty strange.

/cool story bro

COMPLETELY OFFTOPIC:

[beoweasel]

And I don't mean to hijack the post, but is there something wrong with the Mothership? I load up the website, but none of the HTML seems to be working for me, I can't click anything, except for embedded videos.