> it's the fact that Japan doesn't give citizenship to what it considers impure blood Okay, so Japanese treat Zainichi like shit. I'm not going to argue that,

> it's the fact that Japan doesn't give citizenship to what it considers impure blood Okay, so Japanese treat Zainichi like shit. I'm not going to argue that, because it's obvious. But what you're saying here has not been true for decades. There is a path to Japanese citizenship for every Zainichi living in Japan, should they choose to take it, and it is no more or less onerous for them than it is for anyone else. That is not to say that Zainichi have it easy in Japan today. They do not. But this isn't the first time I've read even on HN, that the Japanese government keeps Zainichi in some sort of permanent nationality limbo, and this is simply not the case. Japan does require renouncing your current citizenship as part of the path to Japanese citizenship, but they are not the only nation to do this, and it is certainly not something they require only of Zainichi.