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“After a decade-long battle, the Supreme Court ruled recently that Chung, the daughter of a Japanese woman and a South Korean man, who was born in Japan and has
by Regardsyjc 8y ago
“After a decade-long battle, the Supreme Court ruled recently that Chung, the daughter of a Japanese woman and a South Korean man, who was born in Japan and has lived all her life here, could not take the test to become a supervisor at a public health center because she was a foreigner."
Japan-born Koreans live in limbo https://www.nytimes.com/2005/04/02/news/japanborn-koreans-live-in-limbo.html https://www.nytimes.com/2005/04/02/news/japanborn-koreans-li...
- laurieg 8y agoAnother way to frame this would be she has chosen to "live in limbo". She could naturalise and it would not have been a problem. Japan makes the zainichi concession because it's got no other option. Force the people affected to become Japanese would cause an outcry. Repatriating them to a country they have never lived in would be little better. The zainichi status holders that I have met over the years in general identify more strongly with their non Japanese nationality and do not want to naturalise. If that means they cannot become a police officer or a government official it seems fairly reasonable to me.