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> Also, Japan has a vocal far-right fringe, but the average Japanese person has no qualm with Koreans and Korean TV, music, food etc is widely popular. And Isr
by user982 7y ago
> Also, Japan has a vocal far-right fringe, but the average Japanese person has no qualm with Koreans and Korean TV, music, food etc is widely popular.
And Israelis love Palestinian/Arab hummus. That feeling is not transitive to the Palestinian people.
> There are over 500,000 Koreans living in Japan, many 2nd or 3rd generation, and plenty more naturalized Japanese of Korean descent. If anything, I'd suspect there's a lot more antipathy in Korea towards Japan than the other way around...
Zainichi Koreans of any generation are not citizens and have limited rights in Japan, and can face widespread discrimination if they do not hide their identities/ancestry.
- w00kie 7y agoThey can naturalize anytime they want but choose not to...
- jpatokal 7y ago> Zainichi Koreans of any generation are not citizens That's a bit of a tautology: if they nationalize, which they can if they wish to, they become citizens and stop being counted as Zainichi. They're also granted a number of privileges (welfare, state pensions etc) as "Special Permanent Residents" not afforded to any other non-citizen residents, although they're still not to vote.
- codedokode 7y agoI think comparison with Israel/Palestine is wrong because Koreans do not explode bombs in Japan. Also, I don't understand why anyone could dislike Korean people. They didn't invade Japan, and probably they never invaded any country.