Japan's Hidden Apartheid: Koreans in Japan(1/2) and Japan's Hidden Apartheid: Koreans in Japan(2/2) A video report about Zainichi Koreans. The report focuses on how Zainichi Koreans in Japan suffer discrimination and racism, particularly in situations such as applying for a job or searching for housing. It also look at the Kawasaki Fureai Kaikan which was set up with the support of Koreans living in Kawasaki and at Yokohama Chosen School. Al Jazeera, Dec 8, 2007.
Japanese Alias vs. Real Ethnic Name: On Naming Practices among Young Koreans in Japan An article looking at why many young Koreans in Japan use Japanese names instead of their legal Korean names, how this system works and what the significance of using real ethnic Korean names is. By Yasunori Fukuoka, Saitama University, Japan, 1998. It has some interviews.
Beyond Assimilation and Dissimilation: Diverse Resolutions to Identity Crises among Younger Generation Koreans in Japan by Fukuoka Yasunori. Another article looking at identity issues for young Koreans in Japan based on in-depth interviews with 150 zainichi young people. Saitama University Review. It has some interviews.
Japan-born Koreans live in limbo After a decade-long battle, the Supreme Court ruled recently that Chung Hyang Gyun, 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. New York Times, April 2, 2005. (*You can access this article by connecting university wi-fi or VPN and reearch from the datebase ProQuest)
Identity crisis for Japan's Koreans This articles discusses the reaction of the Korean community in Japan to news in 2002 of the abduction of Japanese citizens by North Korea, and the growing anger shown to them by some Japanese. It also looks at North Korean school in Yokohama, and at the story of Shunsuke Miyazaki, a Zainichi Korean who returned to North Korea in the 1960s, but who escapped again in the 1990s because his family faced starvation and hostiliity in North Korea. BBC News, 25 November, 2002.
Koreans in Japan A Wikipedia article focusing on the history of Koreans in Japan and issues concerning their intergration into Japanese society. (*This information comes from wikipedia, you need to check the information if it is correct, when you research in wikipedia)
Koreans in Japan At present, there are 700,000 Koreans in Japan, three-fourths of whom were born in and have grown up in Japan. Most are legally classified as "resident aliens." Koreans make up 85 percent of Japan's resident alien population. Most Koreans in Japan speak no Korean. World Culture Encyclopedia.
Koreans An overview of the situation of Koreans in Japan that looks at both history and current issues. Minority Rights Group International, 2008.
A foreigner in her own home: Shoddy treatment of its Korean residents once again deals Japan a black eye An article about a 72 year old Korean resident of Japan who made an illegal donation to a Japanese politician. It takes a critical view of how Korean residents of Japan are excluded from any involvement in Japanese politics. Economist, May 10, 2011. (You need to connect University's wi-fi or VPN and search the title of article from The Economist Hisrotical Archieve.)
Beyond Assimilation and Dissimilation: Diverse Resolutions to Identity Crises among Younger Generation Koreans in Japan by Fukuoka Yasunori. Another article looking at identity issues for young Koreans in Japan based on in-depth interviews with 150 zainichi young people. Saitama University Review.
Mintohren: Young Koreans Against Ethnic Discrimination in Japan By Yasunori Fukuoka and Yukiko Tsujiyama. This article focuses on Koreans youths in Japan who fight against ethnic discrimination against them and on the organisation Mintohren that usually leads these struggles. The Bulletin of Chiba College of Health Science.
Supreme Court approves Tokyo Government's denial of promotion to Korean resident in Japan The Supreme Court on January 26 overturned a lower court decision that the Tokyo Metropolitan Government's denial of a promotional test to its non-Japanese employee is unconstitutional. Japan Press Service Co.
Japan's PM hopeful fails to acknowledge family use of slave labour Taro Aso, who is likely to be installed as Japan's new prime minister next week, today refused to acknowledge the use of hundreds of allied prisoners of war by his family's coal mining business during the second world war. Guardian co.uk, September 19, 2008.
Japanese minister ignores slave labour claims by British PoWs Japan's embattled Foreign Minister, Taro Aso, has been denounced by British former PoWs for his connection to Allied prisoners forced to work in slave-like conditions in his family's coalmines during the Second World War. Guardian co.uk, May 14, 2006.
Osaka school offers new approach to education for ethnic Koreans. In 2008, a new type of school for Koreans opened in Osaka in response to Korean residents’ desire for an education that, while emphasizing their roots in the Korean Peninsula, is not restricted by North Korea-South Korea differences. As well as Korean students, Korea International School in Ibaraki, Osaka Prefecture has attracted Japanese students and students who have returned from living abroad. Japan Times, Apr 3, 2014.
Pro-N.Korean Schools in Japan Cave in to Funding Pressure Pro-North Korean high schools in Japan changed textbook entries about North Korea's kidnapping of Japanese nationals and the bombing of Korean Air passenger plane in 1987 to receive local government funding, the Yomiuri Shimbun reported Thursday. Chosunilbo, 3rd June, 2011.
New Dissent in Japan Is Loudly Anti-Foreign An article about new right-wing anti immigrant groups in Japan, who have demonstrated outside a Korean elementary schoo in Kyoto. New York Times, August 28, 2010. (*You can access this article by connecting university wi-fi or VPN and reearch from the datebase ProQuest)
Koreans in Japan This is an article from the Stanford Program on International and Cross-Cultural Education (SPICE) about Koreans in Japan.
Chongyon: A Wikipedia article (*This information comes from wikipedia, you need to check the information if it is correct, when you research in wikipedia)
Mindan: A Wikipedia article (*This information comes from wikipedia, you need to check the information if it is correct, when you research in wikipedia)
The small corner of Tokyo that is forever Pyongyang "Hundreds of thousands of Koreans have lived in Japan since their country was annexed in 1910. But suddenly, they are no longer welcome" This article looks at the Korean community in Tokyo including the only Korean university in Japan. Independent, January 2011.
Japan’s resident Koreans endure a climate of hate This article looks at the history and current situation of Korean permanent residents in Japan (Zainichi Koreans) and focuses on the development of Korean schools, reviewing a film called 'A Crybaby Boxing Club' ,made about a North Korean affiliated school in Japan. Japan Times, 7 May, 2016
Chapter 7. Minority Groups: Ethnicity and Discrimination, in Sugimoto, Yoshio. (2003). An introduction to Japanese society. Cambridge [England] : Cambridge University Press. Available from: Chuo Library 中央書庫 309.152/S94 & Mike. Section IV Korean Residents.
Chapman, D. and Weiner, M. (2009) ‘Zainichi Koreans in history and memory’, in M. Weiner, (Ed). Japan's minorities: the illusion of homogeneity. 2nd Edition. London: Routledge. Available from: Chuo Library 開架 301.45/J35.
Chapter 4. The representation of absence and the absence of representation: Korean victims of the atomic bomb, by Michael Weiner. In Weiner, Michael, (Ed). (1997). Japan's minorities: the illusion of homogeneity. 1st Edition. London: Routledge. Available from: Chuo Library 総合政策 301.45/J35 & Mike.
Koreans in Japan: Past and Present This is a paper by Fukuoka Yasunori, Saitama University, which focuses on (i) the historical background of Koreans in Japan (the factors which made them come to Japan during Japan's colonial rule over Korea; the reasons why they had to remain in Japan even after Japan was defeated in 1945; what kind of Koreans remained in Japan; and the way the post-war Japanese government treated them), and (ii) the current situation of young Koreans in Japan (the lives of third-generation Koreans in Japanese society; the degree of their retention of Korean ethnicity; and their identity conflicts).
The Identities of Young Koreans in Japan An article based on life history interviews with young Koreans in Japan between 1988 and 1993, which looks at the identity conflicts facing many of them and the diversity of identities of Koreans in Japan. By Yasunori Fukuoka, Saitama University, Japan, 1997.
Zainichi Recognitions: Japan’s Korean Residents’ Ideology and Its Discontents This article discusses questions of Korean identity in Japan, looking in particular Zainichi Korean identity and ideology as well as at the experiences of Korean people in Japan and arguing for recogniton of the diversity of the Korean community in Japan. Japan Focus, no date.
The Crossover between Korean Ethnic Education and Multicultural Education in Japan: Kawasaki Fureaikan and ethnic classes in Osaka by Kim, Tae Eun, Kyoto University, no date. This academic article examines "the historical background of Korean ethnic education in Japan since the end of WWII, and the crossover between Korean ethnic education and multicultural education,1 especially from the 1990s onwards."
Tai, E. (2007). 'Multicultural Education in Japan', Japan Focus, December 27, 2007. Korean ethnic education in Japanese public schools, which started in the 1960s, is a form of multicultural education that provides useful ideas for multiculturalist teachers dealing with children of newcomer foreigners. In Osaka, Japanese and Korean activists with different political agendas developed two distinctive approaches. Those interested in the homeland politics of the two Koreas tried to develop an ethno-national identity among Korean children, while those involved in civil rights politics in Japan encouraged the development of political subjectivity.
Tai, E. (2007). 'Multicultural Education in Japan', Japan Focus, December 27, 2007. Korean ethnic education in Japanese public schools, which started in the 1960s, is a form of multicultural education that provides useful ideas for multiculturalist teachers dealing with children of newcomer foreigners. In Osaka, Japanese and Korean activists with different political agendas developed two distinctive approaches. Those interested in the homeland politics of the two Koreas tried to develop an ethno-national identity among Korean children, while those involved in civil rights politics in Japan encouraged the development of political subjectivity.
在日韓国・朝鮮人―若い世代のアイデンティティ 福岡安則著. 中央大学に日本語版書籍あり。さほど問題なく日本社会に適応しているかのように言われる在日韓国・朝鮮人の若者は、実際には、その多くが成長の過程で日本人側の偏見と差別にぶつかり、アイデンティティの葛藤を体験している。だが、彼らの存在と意識は実に多様化し揺れ動いている。本書は、2世３世と呼ばれる人々の聞き取り調査を通して、民族問題とそのアイデンティティを考えるとともに、日本社会の構成員としての９０年代の「在日」の生き方を模索する。
Korean Residents Union in Japan (MINDAN) This is organization of Korean permanent residents. It’s policy is improvement of the international relationship, economic development and peaceful reunification of Korea, protection of the legal rights, social welfare, and cultural improvement of the Korean residents in Japan ('zainichi').
The General Association of Korean Residents in Japan This is the other main organization for Korean Permanent Residents in Japan and has close ties to North Korea (DPRK).
Zainichi Kankoku Seinen Doumei (Korean Youth Alliance in Japan)
Zainichi Korean Jinken Kyoukai (Human Rights Association for Koreans in Japan)
Osaka Kokusai Rikai Kyoiku Kenkyu Centre (Korean Minority Japan)
Kawasaki Fureai Kan （ふれあい館）- a community centre run jointly by Zainiichi Korean and Japanese residents in Kwasaki and providing support for Zainichi Koreans, foreign residents from other groups, and local Japanese residents
Seikyusha 青丘社 Support organization for Korean and Japanese residents of Kawasaki, based at the Kawasaki Fureaikan