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As clarification, do you mean as Americans (a la WW2), or Chinese/Korean (a la Second Sino-Japanese War), or both?
by Jaepa 5y ago
As clarification, do you mean as Americans (a la WW2), or Chinese/Korean (a la Second Sino-Japanese War), or both?
- Qworg 5y agoThe latter IIRC - up until recently, if you had 1/128th Korean ancestry or more, you were disenfranchised.
- winter_blue 5y ago> up until recently, if you had 1/128th Korean ancestry or more, you were disenfranchised. Do you have a reference for this?
- meristohm 5y agoMy anecdata isn’t so specific, and supports the bias of the claim: In the early 2000s I spent a cumulative ten months out so bicycling along Japan, attending graduate school, and being well-cared-for by strangers (I’m a male from the US with Western European ancestors). Several hosts who had ancestors from the mainland (Korea, China) said life in Japan was the more difficult for it.
- legerdemain 5y agoNot specifically about 1/128, but there's plenty of reading about discrimination against masses of Koreans abducted and pressed into labor by Japan during WW2, basically ever since WW2: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Koreans_in_Japan#Integration_into_Japanese_society https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Koreans_in_Japan#Integration_i...
- Qworg 5y agohttps://spice.fsi.stanford.edu/docs/koreans_in_japan https://spice.fsi.stanford.edu/docs/koreans_in_japan They don't speak to the particular law, but they are speaking of the patrilinear transmission of Japanese-ness. I'll keep digging - my source was a Zainichi family in Japan in 2004.