Ethnic Korean Groups in Japan Advance Korean Rights, Culture and Unification with Homeland

Prior to the end of World War II, there was no North or South Korea. There was only one nation, occupied by Japan. When Tokyo surrendered to Allied forces in 1945, the peninsula was split in two at the 38th parallel, and thousands of ethnic Koreans were left in Japan.  In the decades since, many of their descendants have decided to stay and currently number over 600,000. While there are several ethnic Korean groups registered in Japan, two receive the majority of the...

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