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Koreans in Japan

Index Koreans in Japan

comprise ethnic Koreans who have permanent residency status in Japan, or who have become Japanese citizens, and whose immigration to Japan originated before 1945, or who are descendents of those immigrants. [1]

293 relations: Aichi Korean Middle and High School, Akiko Wada, Akira Maeda, Alien registration in Japan, An Chang-nam, An Chang-rim, An Yong-hak, Anti-Chinese sentiment in Japan, Anti-Japanese sentiment, Anti-Korean sentiment, Arita, Saga, Ayumi, Ayumi Ito, Ōkubo, Tokyo, Bilingual education, Black God (manga), Blood and Bones, Border Line, Brian Tee, Caste, Chōsen gakkō, Chōsen-seki, Chinese people in Japan, Chollima, Chon Wolson, Chongryon, Choson Sinbo, Chrysanthemum taboo, Chugai Travel, Coin Locker Babies, Comfort women, Company Matsuo, Crystal Kay, Dear Pyongyang, Death by Hanging, Deaths in February 2012, Demographics of North Korea, Demography of Japan, Doing Time (2002 film), Don't Look Back: The Legend of Orpheus, Ethnic groups of Japan, Ethnic issues in Japan, Ethnic minorities in North Korea, Eugenics in Japan, FC Korea, Fifth column, Fujinagata Shipyards, Full contact karate, Gairaigo, Germany–Japan relations, ..., Go (2001 film), Go (Kaneshiro novel), Gwanggaeto Stele, Hakuryu (actor), Hamamatsu, Han Chang-u, Hapkido, Harue Tsutsumi, Hibari Misora, Hideo Murai, Hirakata, Osaka, Hirofumi Arai, Hiroyuki Jo, Hisayuki Machii, History of Japan–Korea relations, History of Japanese nationality, Hong Sa-ik, Human rights in Japan, Hwang Song-su, Iconiq, Ikuno-ku, Osaka, Ilbe Storehouse, Immigration by country, Immigration to Japan, Index of Korea-related articles (Z), Isao Harimoto, Jake E. 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Aichi Korean Middle and High School

Aichi Korean Middle and High School (愛知朝鮮中高級学校 Aichi Chōsen Chūkōkyūgakkō, 아이찌조선중고급학교) is a North Korea-aligned Korean international school in Toyoake, Aichi Prefecture, Japan, in the Nagoya metropolitan area.

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Akiko Wada

(born April 10, 1950) is a female Japanese singer and television performer from Tsuruhashi, Ikuno-ku, Osaka.

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Akira Maeda

(born Go Il-myeong (Hangul: 고일명, Hanja: 高日明), January 24, 1959) is a Japanese promoter and retired mixed martial artist and professional wrestler of Korean descent.

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Alien registration in Japan

was a system used to record information regarding aliens resident in Japan.

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An Chang-nam

An Chang-nam (19 March 1901 – 2 April 1930) was the first Korean aviator.

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An Chang-rim

An Chang-rim (Hangul: 안창림; Japanese:; born 2 March 1994 in Kyoto) is a South Korean judoka.

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An Yong-hak

An Yong-Hak (born 25 October 1978) is a Japanese-born North Korean football midfielder.

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Anti-Chinese sentiment in Japan

Anti-Chinese sentiment in Japan has been present since the Tokugawa period.

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Anti-Japanese sentiment

Anti-Japanese sentiment (also called Japanophobia, Nipponophobia and anti-Japanism) involves the hatred or fear of anything Japanese.

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Anti-Korean sentiment

Anti-Korean sentiment involves hatred or dislike that is directed towards Korean people, culture or either of the two states (North Korea or South Korea) on the Korean Peninsula.

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Arita, Saga

is a town located in Nishimatsuura District, Saga Prefecture, Japan.

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Ayumi

is a feminine Japanese given name.

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Ayumi Ito

is a Japanese actress.

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Ōkubo, Tokyo

is a neighborhood within Tokyo's Shinjuku ward known for its extensive Korean community.

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Bilingual education

Bilingual education involves teaching academic content in two languages, in a native and secondary language with varying amounts of each language used in accordance with the program model.Bilingual education refers to the utilization of two languages as means of instruction for students and considered part of or the entire school curriculum.

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Black God (manga)

is a Japanese-Korean manga series written by Dall-Young Lim and illustrated by Sung-Woo Park.

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Blood and Bones

is a Japanese film, directed by Yōichi Sai and starring Takeshi Kitano.

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Border Line

Border Line is a 2002 drama film, and the feature film debut of Korean-Japanese film director Sang-il Lee.

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Brian Tee

Jaebeom Takata (born March 15, 1976), known professionally as Brian Tee, is a Japanese American actor, best known for his role as D.K. (also known as The Drift King) in the action film The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift (2006) and as Dr.

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Caste

Caste is a form of social stratification characterized by endogamy, hereditary transmission of a lifestyle which often includes an occupation, status in a hierarchy, customary social interaction, and exclusion.

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Chōsen gakkō

Chōsen gakkō (朝鮮学校 Chōsen gakkō; 조선학교) are schools located in Japan at which Korean students receive education.

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Chōsen-seki

is an alternative nationality assigned to ethnic Koreans in Japan who have neither Japanese nor South Korean citizenship.

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Chinese people in Japan

Chinese people in Japan consist of migrants from the People's Republic of China and the Republic of China, and the previous imperial dynasties to Japan and their descendants.

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Chollima

A Chollima (also Qianlima, Senrima, or Cheollima, literally "thousand-mile horse") is a mythical winged horse that originates from the Chinese classics and is commonly portrayed in East Asian cultures.

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Chon Wolson

Chon Wolson (Tachikawa, Tokyo, Japan, 1959–) is a soprano opera singer in Japan and a Member of the Nikikai Opera Company.

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Chongryon

The General Association of Korean Residents in Japan"." Ministry of Justice.

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Choson Sinbo

The Choson Sinbo (Chosun Shinbo), also known by the name of its English edition The People's Korea, is a newspaper based in Japan, published in both Korean and Japanese.

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Chrysanthemum taboo

The is the Japanese social taboo against discussion or criticism of the Emperor of Japan and his family, especially the late Emperor Shōwa.

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Chugai Travel

is a travel agency based in Taitō, Tokyo, Japan.

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Coin Locker Babies

, 1980, is a novel by Ryu Murakami about coin-operated-locker babies, translated into English by Stephen Snyder.

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Comfort women

Comfort women were women and girls forced into sexual slavery by the Imperial Japanese Army in occupied territories before and during World War II.

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Company Matsuo

is a Japanese adult video (AV) director, producer and entrepreneur.

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Crystal Kay

Crystal Kay Williams (born February 26, 1986 in Yokohama, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan), simply known as Crystal Kay, is a Japanese singer, songwriter, radio host and actress.

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Dear Pyongyang

Dear Pyongyang is a documentary film by Zainichi Korean director Yang Yong-hi about her family.

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Death by Hanging

is a 1968 Japanese film directed by Nagisa Oshima, starring Do-yun Yu.

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Deaths in February 2012

The following is a list of notable deaths in February 2012.

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Demographics of North Korea

The demographics of North Korea are known through national censuses and international estimates.

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Demography of Japan

The demographic features of the population of Japan include population density, ethnicity, education level, health of the populace, economic status, religious affiliations and other aspects regarding the population.

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Doing Time (2002 film)

is a 2002 film directed by Korean-Japanese film director Yōichi Sai.

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Don't Look Back: The Legend of Orpheus

Don't Look Back: The Legend of Orpheus is a 2013 South Korean television series, starring Kim Nam-gil and Son Ye-jin.

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Ethnic groups of Japan

Though it is said that Ethnic Japanese make up 98.5% of the total population and that the rest are Koreans 0.5%, Chinese 0.4%, other 0.6%, in fact these numbers are not known.

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Ethnic issues in Japan

According to census statistics, 98.5% of the population of Japan are Japanese, with the remainder being foreign nationals residing in Japan.

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Ethnic minorities in North Korea

While North Korea is ethnically and linguistically homogeneous, some minorities in North Korea exist.

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Eugenics in Japan

Eugenics in Japan has influenced political, public health and social movements in Japan since the late 19th and early 20th century.

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FC Korea

is a Japanese football club playing in the Kanto Soccer League, one of the Japanese Regional Leagues.

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Fifth column

A fifth column is any group of people who undermine a larger group from within, usually in favour of an enemy group or nation.

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Fujinagata Shipyards

was a shipyard and railroad car manufacturer in Osaka, Japan.

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Full contact karate

Full contact karate is a broad term used to differentiate competition formats of karate where competitors spar (also called Kumite) full-contact and allow a knockout as winning criterion, and those competitions which use light contact/semi contact point sparring where a knockout is regarded as a foul.

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Gairaigo

is Japanese for "loan word" or "borrowed word", and indicates a transliteration (or "transvocalization") into Japanese.

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Germany–Japan relations

The relations between Germany and Japan (Nichidokukankei, Deutsch-japanische Beziehungen) were officially established in 1861 with the first ambassadorial visit to Japan from Prussia (which predated the formation of the German Empire in 1866/1870).

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Go (2001 film)

Go is a 2001 coming-of-age movie, directed by Isao Yukisada, based on Kazuki Kaneshiro's novel of the same title, which tells the story of a Japanese-born North Korean teenager Sugihara (Kubozuka Yōsuke) and a prejudiced Japanese girl Tsubaki Sakurai (Kō Shibasaki) whom he falls for.

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Go (Kaneshiro novel)

GO is a novel written by Kazuki Kaneshiro and published in 2000 by Kodansha.

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Gwanggaeto Stele

The Gwanggaeto Stele is a memorial stele for the tomb of King Gwanggaeto the Great of Goguryeo, erected in 414 by his son Jangsu.

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Hakuryu (actor)

is a Japanese actor.

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Hamamatsu

is a city located in western Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan.

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Han Chang-u

Han Chang-u (韓 昌祐, born February 15, 1931) is a Zainichi Korean businessman who is the CEO of the pachinko management company,.

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Hapkido

Hapkido (also spelled hap ki do or hapki-do; from Korean hapgido) is a highly eclectic Korean martial art.

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Harue Tsutsumi

Harue Tsutsumi (堤春恵, Tsutsumi Harue; born 1950) is a Japanese playwright.

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Hibari Misora

was a Japanese singer, actress and cultural icon.

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Hideo Murai

Hideo Murai (村井 秀夫 Murai Hideo, December 5, 1958 - April 23, 1995) was a member of the Aum Shinrikyo cult and one of the perpetrators responsible for the Sakamoto family murder.

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Hirakata, Osaka

is a city in northeastern Osaka Prefecture, Japan.

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Hirofumi Arai

, is a third-generation Zainichi Korean actor.

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Hiroyuki Jo

is a Zainichi Korean member of, an uyoku organization, and the Mie Prefecture-based Hane-gumi branch of Yamaguchi-gumi, a yakuza organization.

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Hisayuki Machii

, nicknamed the, was the founder of one of Japan's most notorious yakuza gangs, the Tosei-Kai.

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History of Japan–Korea relations

For over 15 centuries, the relationship between Japan and Korea was characterized by cultural exchanges, economic trade, political contact and military confrontations, all of which underlie their relations even today.

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History of Japanese nationality

The history of Japanese nationality as a chronology of evolving concepts and practices begins in the mid-nineteenth century, as Japan opened diplomatic relations with the west and a modern nation state was established through the Meiji Restoration.

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Hong Sa-ik

Hong Sa-ik (hangul 홍사익;hanja 洪思翊; 4 March 1889 – 26 September 1946) was a lieutenant general in the Imperial Japanese Army, and the top-ranking ethnic Korean in Japan to be charged with war crimes relating to the conduct of the Empire of Japan in World War II.

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Human rights in Japan

Japan is a constitutional monarchy.

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Hwang Song-su

Hwang Song-Su (黄誠秀, 10 July 1987) is a Zainichi Korean football player, who plays for Japanese team Oita Trinita and has represented North Korea in international competition.

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Iconiq

Lee Ahyoomi (born on August 25, 1984) known professionally as Ahyoomee, Iconiq or Ito Yumi, is a Japanese singer and actress currently based in Japan and South Korea.

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Ikuno-ku, Osaka

A typical residential area of Ikuno-ku is one of 24 wards of Osaka, Japan.

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Ilbe Storehouse

Ilbe Storage, also known as ILBE (일베), is a right-wing website based in South Korea.

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Immigration by country

This article delineates the issue of immigration in different countries.

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Immigration to Japan

According to the Japanese Ministry of Justice, the number of foreign residents in Japan has steadily increased in the post Second World War period, and the number of foreign residents (excluding illegal immigrants and short-term foreign visitors and tourists staying less than 90 days in Japan) was more than 2.23 million at the end of 2015.

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Index of Korea-related articles (Z)

This is a partial list of Korea-related topics beginning with Z.

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Isao Harimoto

Isao Harimoto (張本 勲 Harimoto Isao, born June 19, 1940 in Hiroshima, Japan) is a Korean former Nippon Professional Baseball player and holder of the record for most hits in the Japanese professional leagues.

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Jake E. Lee

Jake E. Lee (born February 15, 1957) is an American guitarist signed to Shrapnel Records.

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Jake Lee

Jake Alexander Lee (born 18 September 1991) is an English footballer who is currently with National League South side Weston-super-Mare.

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Jake Lee (wrestler)

Lee Che-Gyong (born January 19, 1989), better known by his ring name is a Zainichi-Korean professional wrestler and former mixed martial artist trained by and currently signed to All Japan Pro Wrestling (AJPW).

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Japan

Japan (日本; Nippon or Nihon; formally 日本国 or Nihon-koku, lit. "State of Japan") is a sovereign island country in East Asia.

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Japanese curry

is one of the most popular dishes in Japan.

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Japanese diaspora

The Japanese diaspora, and its individual members known as or, are the Japanese immigrants from Japan and their descendants that reside in a foreign country.

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Japanese general election, 1946

General elections were held in Japan on 10 April 1946, the first after World War II.

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Japanese hip hop

Japanese hip hop (also known as J-rap, J-hip hop or J-hop) is said to have begun when Hiroshi Fujiwara returned to Japan and started playing hip hop records in the early 1980s.

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Japanese Korean

Japanese Korean or Korean Japanese might refer to.

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Japanese name

in modern times usually consist of a family name (surname), followed by a given name.

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Japanese North Korean

Japanese North Korean or North Korean Japanese may refer to.

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Japanese people in North Korea

Japanese people in North Korea consist mainly of four groups: prisoners-of-war in the Soviet Union, Japanese accompanying repatriating Zainichi Korean spouses, defectors, and kidnapping victims.

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Japanese South Korean

Japanese North Korean or North Korean Japanese may refer to.

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Jeff Miyahara

Jeff Miyahara (born February 4, 1977) is a Japanese-Korean record producer and songwriter raised in Los Angeles, today based in Tokyo, Japan.

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Jeju uprising

From April 1948 to May 1949, the Korean province of Jeju Island was subjected to a communist insurgency and subsequent anticommunist suppression campaign, killing between 14,000 and 30,000 people.

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Jjokbari

Jjokbari (쪽발이, borrowed into Japanese as チョッパリ, romaji choppari) is a Korean language ethnic slur which may refer to Japanese citizens or people of Japanese ancestry.

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Jo Yeong-seok

Young S. Cho (born 1 January 1934), also known as Jo Yeong-seok, is a South Korean alpine skier.

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Joji Obara

is a Korean-Japanese man who has been convicted of committing multiple rapes in Japan.

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Jong Tae-se

Jong Tae-se (romanization used by FIFA, otherwise spelled as in Japan and Germany; hangul: 정대세, hanja: 鄭大世) is a Japanese-born North Korean footballer, being one of a few North Koreans mainly played in the Japanese J-League or the German 2. Bundesliga.

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June 22

On this day the Summer solstice may occur in the Northern Hemisphere, and the Winter solstice may occur in the Southern Hemisphere.

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Kaho Minami

is a Japanese actress of Korean descent active in film, television and commercials.

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Kaneshiro

is a Japanese surname meaning "golden castle".

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Kaneshiro Kofuku

Kaneshiro Kofuku (born Kofuku Kaneshiro; February 27, 1953 - December 29, 2002) was a sumo wrestler from Takanabe, Miyazaki, Japan.

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Kang Sang-jung

Kang Sang-jung (Hangul: 강상중, Hanja: 姜尙中; Japanese name - which Kang used until his undergraduate days - Nagano Tetsuo (永野鉄男) 1950) is a second-generation Zainichi Korean political scientist, writer and public commentator.

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Kankurō Kudō

is a Japanese screenwriter, dramatist, director, actor and member of the theater company Otona Keikaku.

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Kansai dialect

The is a group of Japanese dialects in the Kansai region (Kinki region) of Japan.

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Kantō Massacre

The Kantō Massacre was mass murder committed by Japanese militaries, police and vigilantes against the Zainichi residents of Kantō region, Japan, immediately after the 1923 Great Kantō earthquake.

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Kawasaki, Kanagawa

is a city in Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan.

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Kazuki Kaneshiro

is a Zainichi Korean novelist who was born in Kawaguchi, Saitama.

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Kazunari Okayama

or Kang Il-Sung (Korean: 강일성, Hanja: 康一成) is a Japanese football player of Korean descent.

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KBS World (Japan)

KBS World is a Japanese television channel operated by KBS Japan, a subsidiary of Korean Broadcasting System, targeting Koreans in Japan, as well as Japanese audience interested in Korean entertainment.

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Kei Aran

, (born October 9, 1970), is a Japanese actress and former top star otokoyaku (an actress who plays male roles) of the Japanese Takarazuka Revue's Star Troupe.

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Keisuke Kunimoto

, birth name: Lee Gyeong-Woo (Korean: 이경우, Hanja: 李京佑), is a Japanese/Zainichi Korean race car driver who races with Japanese racing license.

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Kiko Mizuhara

Audrie Noriko Daniel (born 15 October 1990), known professionally as, is a model, actress, and designer who has lived in Japan since childhood.

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Kim Chae-hwa

Kim Chae-hwa (also Ayaka Nagase; born November 7, 1988) is a South Korean former competitive figure skater.

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Kim Chon-hae

Kim Chon-hae (Japanese reading: Kin Tenkai; 10 May 1898, Ulsan-gun, South Gyeongsang – 1969?) was a Zainichi Korean who was a leading figure in the Japanese Communist Party and a founder of the pro-communist League of Koreans in Japan, predecessor of the modern Chongryon.

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Kim Chul-won

Kim Chul-won (キム・チョルウォン; born January 22, 1984) is a South Korean-born Japanese international rugby union player from Seoul.

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Kim Duk

or Kim Duk (김 덕/金 徳) is a semi-retired Zainichi-Korean professional wrestler, better known under his ring name.

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Kim Hong-jae

Kim Hong-Jae (born October 10, 1954) is a Zainichi Korean conductor.

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Kim Jung-ya

Kim Jung-ya (born May 17, 1988) is a Zainichi Korean football player who plays for Gamba Osaka.

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Kim Myeong-joon

Kim Myeong-joon is a South Korean film director and cinematographer.

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Kim Myong-chol

Kim Myong-chol is a Korean writer and editor based in Japan and an unofficial spokesperson of North Korea, regularly travelling to Pyongyang and around the world portraying the North Korean leadership and politics.

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Kim Myong-hwi

Kim Myong-Hwi (born 8 May 1981) is a retired Japanese-born North Korean footballer.

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Kim Sok-pom

Kim Sok-pom, also spelled Kim Suok-puom (born October 2, 1925) is a Zainichi Korean novelist who writes in Japanese.

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Kim Song-yong

Kim Song-yong (born February 26, 1987, in Tokyo, Japan) is a Zainichi Korean striker who has played for the North Korean national football team.

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Kim Sung-keun

Kim Sung-keun (Hangul: 김성근, Hanja: 金星根) (born December 13, 1942 in Kyoto, Japan) is a retired South Korean left-handed baseball pitcher and the manager.

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Kirio Urayama

was a Japanese film director and screenwriter.

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Kobe

is the sixth-largest city in Japan and the capital city of Hyōgo Prefecture.

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Koichi Iwaki

is a Koreans in Japan actor.

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Koji Kanemoto

is a Japanese professional wrestler of Zainichi Korean descent.

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Koma clan

The was an immigrant royal family descended from Goguryeo Prince Go Yak'gwang (高若光) who became known as "Genbu Jakkō" (玄武若光) and later as "Koma no Kokishi Jakkō" (高麗若光).

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Korea under Japanese rule

Korea under Japanese rule began with the end of the short-lived Korean Empire in 1910 and ended at the conclusion of World War II in 1945.

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Korean Americans

Korean Americans (Hangul: 한국계 미국인, Hanja: 韓國系美國人, Hangukgye Migukin) are Americans of Korean heritage or descent, mostly from South Korea, and with a very small minority from North Korea, China, Japan and Post-Soviet states.

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Korean Canadians

Korean Canadians are Canadian citizens of Korean ancestry.

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Korean dialects

A number of Korean dialects are spoken in the Korean Peninsula.

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Korean diaspora

The Korean diaspora (South Korea: or; North Korea: or) consists of roughly seven million people, both descendants of early emigrants from the Korean Peninsula, as well as more recent emigres from Korea.

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Korean musicians in Japan

Despite Japan’s imperialist rule of South Korea from 1910 to 1945, South Korean musicians have been successful in Japan since the inception of Korean popular music.

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Korean nationality

Korean nationality (한국국적) refers to citizenship of the Korea.

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Korean schools in Japan

Korean schools in Japan or Zainichi Korean schools may refer to.

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Koreans

Koreans (in South Korean; alternatively in North Korean,; see names of Korea) are an East Asian ethnic group originating from and native to Korea and southern and central Manchuria.

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Koreans in China

The population of Koreans in China include millions of descendants of Korean immigrants with citizenship of the People's Republic of China, as well as smaller groups of South and North Korean expatriates, with a total of roughly 2.3 million people, making it the largest ethnic Korean population living outside the Korean Peninsula.

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Koreans in Japan: Critical Voices from the Margin

Koreans in Japan: Critical Voices from the Margin is a 2000 book edited by Sonia Ryang, published by Routledge.

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Koreans in the Arab world

Koreans in the Arab world used to form a major part of the worldwide Korean diaspora.

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Koreatown

A Koreatown (코리아타운 Koliataun), also known as a Little Korea or Little Seoul, is a Korean-dominated ethnic enclave within a city or metropolitan area outside the Korean Peninsula.

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Kotetsu Boku

Park Kwang-cheol (Hangul: 박광철, Hanja:朴光哲), better known by his Japanese name, is a Japanese-born South Korean mixed martial artist and kickboxer, competing in the Featherweight division.

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Kouhiro Kanemura

(김행호) (born August 9, 1970) is a Zainichi-Korean retired professional wrestler, better known by the ring name.

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Kwon Hyi-ro

Kwon Hyi-ro (Japanese: Kin Kirō) (November 20, 1928 – March 26, 2010) was a second-generation Korean in Japan born in November, 1928 in Shimizu, Shizuoka, who became a national hero in South Korea after holding 18 Japanese citizens hostage in 1968.

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Kwon Ri-se

Kwon Ri-se (August 16, 1991 – September 7, 2014), better known by her stage name RiSe, was a Japanese singer of Korean descent.

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Kyokushin

is a style of stand-up, full contact karate, founded in 1964 by Korean-Japanese.

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Language minority students in Japanese classrooms

Minority (non-Japanese) students can be found throughout the entire Japanese education system.

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Languages of Japan

The most widely spoken language in Japan is Japanese, which is separated into a large number of dialects with Tokyo dialect considered standard Japanese.

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Lee Hoesung

Lee Hoesung is a Zainichi Korean novelist in Japan.

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Lee Kyung-jae

Lee Kyung-jae (born 1954 in Takatsuki, Osaka Prefecture) is an ethnic Korean community organiser in Japan.

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Lee Ryol-li

Lee Ryol-Li or Retsuri Lee is a Zainichi Korean professional boxer from Osaka Prefecture, Japan, born on May 20, 1982.

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Lee Sang-il (film director)

Lee Sang-il (Korean: 이상일, born 6 January 1974 in Niigata Prefecture, Japan) is a Zainichi Korean film director and screenwriter.

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Lee Yangji

Yangji Lee (March 15, 1955–May 22, 1992) was a second-generation Zainichi Korean Japanese novelist born in Nishikatsura, Yamanashi, Japan.

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Leza Lowitz

Leza Lowitz (born December 29, 1962, San Francisco) is an American expatriate writer and Yoga instructor residing in Tokyo, Japan.

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List of contemporary ethnic groups

The following is a list of contemporary ethnic groups.

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List of Japanese flags

This is a list of Japanese flags, past and present.

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List of Korean Americans

The following is a list of notable Korean Americans, including original immigrants who obtained American citizenship and their American descendants.

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List of Koreans in Japan

This is a list of notable Zainichi Koreans or notable Japanese people of Korean descent.

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List of North Korean defectors in South Korea

* This is a list of notable defectors from North Korea to South Korea.

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Makoto Sakurai

is the pen name of a political activist, blogger, and writer from Kitakyushu in Fukuoka Prefecture, Japan.

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Mami Kumagai

is a Japanese actress.

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Man Gyong Bong 92

The Man Gyong Bong 92 is a cargo-passenger ferry, named after a hill near Pyongyang.

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Manga Kenkanryu

is a Japanese manga written by Sharin Yamano with a theme that draws on anti-Korean sentiment in Japan.

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Marriage in Japan

Marriage in Japan is a legal and social institution at the center of the household.

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Mas Oyama

, more commonly known as Mas Oyama, was a karate master who founded Kyokushin Karate, considered the first and most influential style of full contact karate.

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Masaaki Tachihara

was the pen-name of a Japanese novelist, essayist, poet and literary critic of Korean descent, active during the Shōwa period.

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Masaichi Kaneda

is a Zainichi Korean–Japanese former professional baseball pitcher.

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Masamori Tokuyama

is a retired professional boxer in the super flyweight (115 lb) division.

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Masayoshi Son

is a Japanese business magnate and investor of Korean descent who is the founder and current chief executive officer of Japanese holding conglomerate SoftBank, the chief executive officer of SoftBank Mobile, current chairman of U.S.-based Sprint Corporation and chairman of U.K.-based Arm Holdings.

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Migration in Japan

This article focuses on internal migration as well as migration from and to Japan.

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Min Jin Lee

Min Jin Lee (born 1968) is a Korean American writer whose work frequently deals with Korean American topics.

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Minami-ku, Kyoto

is one of the eleven wards in the city of Kyoto, in Kyoto Prefecture, Japan.

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Mindan

Mindan (민단), or the Korean Residents Union in Japan (재일본대한민국민단), is the name of one of two main organizations for Koreans living in Japan, the other being Chongryon.

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Mintohren

Mintohren, also Mintōren, is a grass-roots movement created by young Zainichi Koreans to combat ethnic discrimination by encouraging a multicultural and positive approach to integration of Koreans into Japanese society.

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Mipo O

is a Japanese film director, screenwriter, and commercial director.

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Miri Yu

Miri Yu (born June 22, 1968) is a Zainichi Korean playwright, novelist, and essayist.

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Mizuho Katayama

Mizuho Katayama (born 27 November 1969) is a synchronized swimming coach in Japan.

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Mobara

is a city located in Chiba Prefecture, Japan.

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Monoethnicity

Monoethnicity is the existence of a single ethnic group in a given region or country.

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Mun Se-gwang

Mun Se-gwang (December 26, 1951 – December 20, 1974) was a Japanese-born North Korean sympathizer who attempted to assassinate South Korean president Park Chung-Hee on August 15, 1974.

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My Tutor Friend

My Tutor Friend (lit. "Tutoring a Student of the Same Age") is a 2003 South Korean romantic comedy film starring Kim Ha-neul and Kwon Sang-woo.

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Nambul: War Stories

Nambul: War Stories (남벌; Nambul; literally "Conquering the South") is a South Korean military drama manhwa series, written by Lee Hyun-se (이현세; Hanja: 李賢世; I Hyeon-se) first published in 1994.

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Names of Korea

There are various names of Korea in use today, derived from ancient kingdoms and dynasties.

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Naoki Hyakuta

is a Japanese author and screenwriter.

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Nation state

A nation state (or nation-state), in the most specific sense, is a country where a distinct cultural or ethnic group (a "nation" or "people") inhabits a territory and have formed a state (often a sovereign state) that they predominantly govern.

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National Security Act (South Korea)

The National Security Act is a South Korean law enforced since 1948 with the avowed purpose "to secure the security of the State and the subsistence and freedom of nationals, by regulating any anticipated activities compromising the safety of the State.", Korea Ministry of Government Legislation Accessed 6 Oct, 2014.

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National without household registration

National without household registration (abbreviated NWOHR) is the legal status held by nationals of the Republic of China (ROC) who lack household registration in the Taiwan Area.

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Nationality Law of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea

The Nationality Law of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK, commonly known as North Korea) governs who is a citizen of the DPRK, and how one may gain or lose such citizenship.

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Netto-uyoku

, is the term used to refer to Japanese neo-nationalists who interact almost entirely within their own cyber community, shut off from the rest of Japanese society.

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NHK

is Japan's national public broadcasting organization.

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Nigerians in Japan

form a significant immigrant community, with around 2800 living in the country, mostly belonging to the Nigerian Union in Japan which is divided into sub-unions based on states of origin.

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Noriaki Tsuchimoto

(11 December 1928, Gifu Prefecture, Japan - 24 June 2008) was a Japanese documentary film director known for his films on Minamata disease and examinations of the effects of modernization on Asia.

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North Korean literature

Reading is a popular pastime in North Korea, where literacy and books enjoy a high cultural standing, elevated by the regime's efforts to disseminate propaganda as texts.

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Nothing to Envy

Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea is a 2009 part-novelization of interviews with refugees from Chongjin, North Korea, written by Los Angeles Times journalist Barbara Demick.

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Okryu-gwan

Okryu-gwan or Okryu Restaurant is a restaurant in Pyongyang, North Korea, founded in 1960.

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Osaka

() is a designated city in the Kansai region of Japan.

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Osaka Prefecture

is a prefecture located in the Kansai region on Honshu, the main island of Japan.

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Our School

Our School is a documentary film about the lives of ethnic Korean students in a Chongryon-run pro-North Korean highschool in Hokkaido, Japan.

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Pachinko

is a type of mechanical game originating in Japan and is used as both a form of recreational arcade game and much more frequently as a gambling device, filling a Japanese gambling niche comparable to that of the slot machine in Western gaming.

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Park Chung-hee

Park Chung-hee (or; 14 November 1917 – 26 October 1979) was a South Korean politician, general, who served as the President of South Korea from 1963 until his assassination in 1979, assuming that office after first ruling the country as head of a military junta installed by the May 16 coup in 1961.

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Park Geun-hye

Park Geun-hye (born 2 February 1952) is a former South Korean politician who served as the 11th President of South Korea from 2013 to 2017.

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Park Joong-hoon

Park Joong-hoon (born March 22, 1964) is a South Korean actor.

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Park Seong-tae

Park Seong-tae (born 10 July 1927) is a South Korean former sports shooter.

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People's Athlete

People's Athlete is a North Korean honorary title awarded to sportspeople.

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Pile (singer)

, better known by her stage name Pile, is a Korean-Japanese singer, actress and voice actress from Tokyo.

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Prince Junda

, was the second son of King Muryeong of Baekje who settled in Japan.

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Public Security Intelligence Agency

The is the national intelligence agency of Japan.

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Pushim

, born  on November 26, 1975 is a Zainichi Korean reggae artist.

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Red Cross Society of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea

The Red Cross Society of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK RCS) is the national Red Cross Society of North Korea.

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Republic of Korea passport

Republic of Korea passports (대한민국 여권) are issued to citizens of South Korea to facilitate international travel.

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Rhee Ho Nam

Rhee Ho Nam (28 February 1934 – June 5, 2003) was the first president of a stake of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) in South Korea.

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Right of foreigners to vote

In most countries, suffrage, the right to vote, is generally limited to citizens of the country.

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Rihwa

(born October 4, 1989 as Pak Rihwa (Korean: 박리화; Kanji: 朴梨華; Japanese: パク・リファ Paku Rifa) is a Japanese pop singer. She is represented by Toy's Factory and managed by Amuse, Inc.

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Riki Choshu

, better known by his ring name is a Korean-Japanese semi-retired professional wrestler who is best known for his longtime work in New Japan Pro Wrestling (NJPW) as both a wrestler and a booker.

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Rikidōzan

(born Kim Sin-rak;; November 14, 1924 – December 15, 1963), better known as Rikidōzan (力道山), was a Korean-Japanese professional wrestler, known as the "Father of Puroresu" and one of the most influential men in professional wrestling history.

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Romi Park

Due to technical issues, Park's name is often written as due to the Hyōgaiji status of She has also been referred by 朴路美 and 朴王路美.

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Rugby union in South Korea

Rugby union in South Korea is a minor but growing sport.

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Ryang Kyu-sa

Ryang Kyu-sa (born 3 June 1978) is a retired Zainichi Korean footballer who played for North Korea in 2000 AFC Asian Cup qualification.

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Ryang Yong-gi

Ryang Yong-gi (born 7 January 1982 in Tadaoka, Osaka) is a Japanese-born North Korean footballer who plays for Vegalta Sendai in the J. League Division 1.

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Ryoji Sai

(born June 3, 1980) is a Japanese professional wrestler, mixed martial artist and promoter who currently owns and operates Pro Wrestling Land's End, where he's the current All Asia Heavyweight Champion.

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Ryokichi Minobe

was a Japanese politician who served as Governor of Tokyo from 1967 to 1979.

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Ryuhei Matsuda

is a Japanese film and television actor.

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Sakhalin Koreans

Sakhalin Koreans are Russian citizens and residents of Korean descent living on Sakhalin Island, who trace their roots to the immigrants from the Gyeongsang and Jeolla provinces of Korea during the late 1930s and early 1940s, the latter half of the Japanese colonial era.

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Sangokujin

is a Japanese term referring to residents of Korea (North and South) and Taiwan in the aftermath of World War II.

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Saori (television personality)

Saori (Japanese: 張 佐緖里, Korean: 장은주, Hanja: 張恩珠), born May 19, 1981, is a third-generation Japanese-born Korean who gained fame through guest appearances on KBS's Global Beauties Chat (미녀들의 수다).

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Satoru Kanemura

is a Japanese former professional baseball pitcher of Zainichi Korean descent.

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Sōshi-kaimei

Sōshi-kaimei (創氏改名) was a policy of pressuring Koreans under Japanese rule to adopt Japanese names. It consisted of two parts. Ordinance No. 19, issued in 1939, required sōshi, literally "creation of a; unlike Japan, Korea had not adopted the Western practice of universally using family names (see). Ordinance No. 20, issued in 1940, permitted kaimei, change of one's given name; this was voluntary and the applicant was charged a fee. These ordinances, issued by General Jirō Minami, Governor-General of Korea, effectively reversed an earlier government order which forbade Koreans to take up Japanese names. There are various explanations for the purpose of the ordinances.

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Seiji Maehara

is a Japanese politician and was the leader of the Democratic Party from 1 September 2017 until its dissolution later that month.

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Shigakishi

, was the third son of King Muryeong of Baekje.

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Shin Kyuk-ho

Shin Kyuk-Ho (Japanese: Takeo Shigemitsu, born 8 October 1922) is a Korean businessman.

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Shinano River incident

The was the massacre of up to 100 Korean labourers in July 1922 who were working for the Okura zaibatsu at the construction site of a power plant on the Shinano River.

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Shinjiro Hiyama

is a Korean baseball player from Ukyō-ku, Kyoto, Japan.

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Shintaro Ishihara

is a Japanese politician and author who was Governor of Tokyo from 1999 to 2012.

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Shion (singer)

, better known as Shion (meaning "lyrics-sound"), is a Korean Japanese R&B singer, who has been active since mid-2000s.

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Shota Matsuda

is a Japanese actor.

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Sohee Park

Sohee Park (born December 19, 1975) is a stage, film, and television actor.

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Son Min-chol

Son Min-chol (born 27 October 1986) is a Japanese-born North Korean footballer who currently plays for Hong Kong Premier League club Lee Man.

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Song Du-yul

Song Du-yul (born 12 October 1944) is a German-Korean professor in philosophy and sociology at the University of Münster, Germany.

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Sonim

is a J-pop singer and actress.

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Sonmi

is a Japanese model who is represented by Platinum Production.

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Sousuke Takaoka

is a Japanese actor, known for his break-out performance in the controversial movie Battle Royale.

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South Korean nationality law

South Korean nationality law defines who is a South Korean citizen, as well as the procedures by which one may be naturalized into South Korean citizenship or renounce it.

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Special Permanent Resident (Japan)

A is a resident of Japan with ancestry usually related to its former colonies, Korea or Taiwan when those countries were under Japanese colonial rule.

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Suh Sung

Suh Sung (born 1945) is a former South Korean political prisoner.

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Tadanari Lee

is a Japanese football player of Korean descent who plays for Urawa Red Diamonds.

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Tadaoka, Osaka

is a town located in Senboku District, Osaka Prefecture, Japan.

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Taiei Kin

Kin Taiei (김태영, Hanja: 金泰泳; born July 8, 1970) is a Korean-Japanese light heavyweight karateka, kickboxer and mixed martial artist competing in K-1 and DREAM. He's also a karate instructor and a trainer for professional fighters. His name is sometimes pronounced as "Kim Tae Yong" in Korean. Before switching to MMA, Kin was a distinguished fighter in the K-1, praised by both Peter Aerts and Ernesto Hoost as the best fighter to come out of Asia.

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Takeichi Nishi

Colonel Baron was an Imperial Japanese Army officer, equestrian show jumper, and Olympic Gold Medalist at the 1932 Los Angeles Olympics.

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Tal-su Kim

was a Korea-born, Japan-raised writer.

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Tamarikidō Hideki

Tamarikidō Hideki (born April 19, 1974) is a former sumo wrestler born in Edogawa, Tokyo, Japan.

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Tane maku Hito

Tane maku Hito (種蒔く人, "The Sower") was a Japanese proletarian literary magazine in the early 1920s.

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Tatsuhito Takaiwa

is a Zainichi-Korean professional wrestler.

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Tatsuji Fuse

was a Japanese lawyer and social activist.

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Te Sun Han

Te Sun Han (born 1941, Kiryū) is a Korean Japanese information theorist and winner of the 2010 Shannon Award.

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Thanomsak Sithbaobay

Thanomsak Sithbaobay (ถนอมศักดิ์ ศิษย์โบ๊เบ๊; born: April 5, 1965 in Maha Sarakham province) was a retired Thai professional boxer, who challenged the world champion three times, but not successful like Chamroen Songkitrat in 1950s.

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The Aquariums of Pyongyang

The Aquariums of Pyongyang, by Kang Chol-hwan and Pierre Rigoulot, is an account of the imprisonment of Kang Chol-Hwan and his family in the Yodok concentration camp in North Korea.

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Timeline of Japan–South Korea relations

A timeline of modern Japan–South Korea relations.

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Toa-kai

The is a yakuza syndicate based in Tokyo with a predominantly Korean Japanese membership.

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Tochinowaka Michihiro

Tochinowaka Michihiro (born Dae Won Lee on April 6, 1988) is a former sumo wrestler from Hyogo, Japan.

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Tokubetsu Kōtō Keisatsu

, often shortened to, was a police force established in 1911 in Japan, specifically to investigate and control political groups and ideologies deemed to be a threat to public order.

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Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six: Take-Down – Missions in Korea

Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six: Take-Down – Missions in Korea is a South Korean-made Microsoft Windows game released in July 2001.

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Tomoaki Kanemoto

is a Japanese former professional baseball outfielder and the current manager of the Hanshin Tigers in Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB).

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Tomohiro Kojiri

, (1958 – May 4, 1987) a Japanese journalist for Asahi Shimbun, a popular newspaper with its main office is located in Tokyo, Japan, was killed in Nishinomiya, Hyōgo Prefecture near Osaka.

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Toshima

is a special ward in Tokyo, Japan.

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Tree of Heaven (TV series)

Tree of Heaven is a 2006 South Korean-Japanese series starring Lee Wan and Park Shin-hye.

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Tsuruhashi Station

is a railway station complex in the Tsuruhashi district of Ikuno-ku and Tennoji-ku, Osaka, Japan.

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Tsuyoshi Ihara

(b. 1963) is a Japanese actor and author.

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Verbal (rapper)

Verbal (born August 21, 1975) is a Japanese third generation Zainichi Korean hip hop recording artist, music video director and record producer who debuted in 1998 as a member of the Hip hop group m-flo.

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Vietnamese people in Japan

form Japan's third-largest community of foreign residents ahead of Filipinos in Japan and behind Koreans in Japan, according to the statistics of the Ministry of Justice.

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War poet

A war poet is a poet who participates in a war and writes about his experiences, or a non-combatant who write poems about war.

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Woo In-hee

Woo In-hee (died 1981) was a North Korean actress and a mistress of Kim Jong-il.

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Yakiniku

Yakiniku (焼き肉 or 焼肉), meaning "grilled meat", is a Japanese term that, in its broadest sense, refers to grilled meat cuisine.

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Yakuza

, also known as, are members of transnational organized crime syndicates originating in Japan.

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Yamagata International Documentary Film Festival

The Yamagata International Documentary Film Festival is a documentary film festival held biennially in Yamagata, Japan. It was first held in October 1989, which makes it one of the longest running documentary film festivals in the world and the most distinguished such festival in Asia.

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Yamato clan

The also known as "Yamato no Fuhito" (和史) was an immigrant clan active in Japan since the Kofun period (250–538), according to the history of Japan laid out in Nihon Shoki.

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Yamato people

The and are an East Asian ethnic group and nation native to the Japanese archipelago.

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Yang Bang-ean

Yang Bang-ean (born 1 January 1960) is a Korean composer, arranger, record producer, and pianist.

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Yang Yong-hi

Yang Yong-hi (ヤン・ヨンヒ) is a Japanese-born Korean (or Zainichi) film director.

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Yōsuke Kubozuka

is a Japanese actor.

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Yi Bangja

Yi Bangja, Crown Princess Uimin of Korea (also Euimin, 李方子 Ri Masako) (4 November 1901 – 30 April 1989) was the consort of Crown Prince Euimin of Korea.

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Yoichi Sai

is a Japanese film director.

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Yokohama

, literally "Port to the side" or "Beside the port", is the second largest city in Japan by population, after Tokyo, and the most populous municipality of Japan.

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Yokosuka, Kanagawa

is a city in Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan.

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Yoshihiro Akiyama

(born July 29, 1975), also known as Choo Sung-hoon (Hangul: 추성훈, Hanja: 秋成勳) is a Korean-Japanese mixed martial artist and judoka.

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Yuk Young-soo

Yuk Young-soo (November 29, 1925 – August 15, 1974) was the wife of the 3rd South Korean president Park Chung-hee and the mother of the 11th South Korean president Park Geun-hye.

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Yusaku Matsuda

was a Japanese actor.

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Yuta Kubo

is Japanese lightweight kickboxer.

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Zainichi Korean language

Zainichi Korean is Korean as spoken by Zainichi Koreans (ethnic Korean citizens or residents of Japan).

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Zaitokukai

Zaitokukai, full name, is an ultra-nationalist and far-right extremist political organization in Japan, which calls for an end to state welfare and alleged privileges afforded to Zainichi Koreans.

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Zeus (Japanese wrestler)

is a Japanese bodybuilder and professional wrestler, better known by his ring name.

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1923 Great Kantō earthquake

The struck the Kantō Plain on the Japanese main island of Honshū at 11:58:44 JST (02:58:44 UTC) on Saturday, September 1, 1923.

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1943 Tottori earthquake

The occurred in Tottori prefecture, Japan at 17:36 local time on September 10, 1943.

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1980s in Japan

In Japan during the 1980s, the economy was in a boom where buyers found themselves paying the highest prices for goods and commodities.

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2010 in Japan

Events in the year 2010 in Japan.

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Redirects here:

Chae'il Chosŏnin, Chae'il Hankukin, Chae'il Kyopo, Chae'il Tongpo, Chōsenkei Nihonjin, Hangukgye Ilbonin, Hangukkye Ilbonin, Jaeil Dongpo, Jaeil Gyopo, Jaeil Hangugin, Jaeil Joseonin, Joseongye Ilbonin, Kankokukei Nihonjin, Korean Japananese, Korean in Japan, Korean people in Japan, North Koreans in Japan, South Koreans in Japan, Zainich, Zainichi, Zainichi Chōsenjin, Zainichi Kankokujin, Zainichi Korean, Zainichi Koreans, Zainichi Korian, 在日, 在日コリアン, 在日僑胞, 在日同胞, 在日朝鮮人, 在日韓國人, 韓國系日本人, 재일교포, 재일동포, 재일조선인, 재일한국인, 조선계 일본인, 한국계 일본인.

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Koreans_in_Japan

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