A Novelist Confronts the Complex Relationship Between Japan and Korea
- 7 years ago
A Novelist Confronts the Complex Relationship Between Japan and Korea
South Korea said that I have romantic ideas about home and what it should mean,
Ms. Lee was speaking over spicy beef and kimchi at a restaurant in Shin-Okubo staffed by "zainichi" — descendants of the hundreds of thousands of Koreans
who migrated to the Japanese islands during the first half of the 20th century, after Japan’s empire swallowed up the Korean Peninsula in 1910.
" said Ms. Lee. that Instead of banning it, Japan tolerates it but disparages the people who run it,
Ms. Lee said she hoped that publishers would not be put off by an unsparing
look at Japan’s still only partly resolved history by an American outsider.
Masachika Ukiba said that Koreans have suffered from the discrimination
that all immigrants face, plus an added dimension that comes from their having been colonial subjects,
As an American, Ms. Lee was partly insulated from lingering bias in Japan against zainichi.
South Korea said that I have romantic ideas about home and what it should mean,
Ms. Lee was speaking over spicy beef and kimchi at a restaurant in Shin-Okubo staffed by "zainichi" — descendants of the hundreds of thousands of Koreans
who migrated to the Japanese islands during the first half of the 20th century, after Japan’s empire swallowed up the Korean Peninsula in 1910.
" said Ms. Lee. that Instead of banning it, Japan tolerates it but disparages the people who run it,
Ms. Lee said she hoped that publishers would not be put off by an unsparing
look at Japan’s still only partly resolved history by an American outsider.
Masachika Ukiba said that Koreans have suffered from the discrimination
that all immigrants face, plus an added dimension that comes from their having been colonial subjects,
As an American, Ms. Lee was partly insulated from lingering bias in Japan against zainichi.