Tokyo court rejects suit over North Korea repatriation program

"Koreans face discrimination in Japan". That is a generational issue. Young people love Korea and Koreans. Their view is formed from K-Pop and TV dramas, which they love. It is the older generation that lives in the past. I'm not saying that it is everyone.

five people seeking North Korea's responsibility over abuses they said they suffered for decades when they were lured to the North by Pyongyang's false promise of living in the “paradise on Earth.”

The five plaintiffs, including ethnic Koreans and Japanese who had moved to the North under the 1959-1984 repatriation program and have since fled from there, filed the lawsuit in 2018 seeking 100 million yen each in compensation over what they said was illegal “solicitation and detainment."

If you thought that moving to NK was going to give you bliss you deserve what you got. This was beyond stupid on your part

I don't understand why North Koreans and South Koreans change their birth names. In other countries it is not easy to change your birth name, it requires a lot of bureaucracy, Just saying.

I feel for them... but they made the choice to move. There were people in a similar situation that moved from Europe to USSR after the war, and soon they were trapped in there and accused of being spies or whatever, sent to jails.

That is a generational issue. Young people love Korea

No, they don't. What they love is South Korea (Kankoku), not North Korea (Kita-Chosen).

You are confusing 2 countries. Your generation was not educated or what ?

Plaintiffs should change the 1st target toward Chong Ryon

Oh yeah ..North Korea paradise on earth.

They are not going to be able to hold North Korea or Japan accountable anyway !

Regardless of the statue of limitations.

Its true fact that discrimination in Japan is a massive problem and not just for Koreans but for all non Japanese and sadly also Japanese females.

Discrimination its human rights abuse .

In the 1950s Japan was a third world country like Mexico of today, political chaos,economic hardships and many uncertainties of the country. But North Korea recovered fast from the Korean war because she got massive supports from the Soviet Union and China. Back in those days many South Koreans and Japanese fled to North Korea to seek for better lives. Japan became speeding on economic fast track was she signed the US-Japan defense pact 1960 by know towing to every demands from USA, it took 15 years she became world no.2 economy and stay 35 years until replaced by China. The Korean & Japanese people who fled to North Korea has just missed the oppurtunity! Don't blame them, that hardships of they endured in 1950s was beyond speech!

Life in NK is not so bad if you understand the rules. Life in western or Japan is difficult because the rules change, corruption, capitalism, racism, censorship…all that stuff we experience everyday. NKians seem happy and contempt compared to us.

I honestly don’t feel sorry for these people. Yeah Japan shouldn’t have encouraged these people to go to North Korea but it doesn’t seem like they were forced. They were moronic and went on their own free will. Kind of like the very definition of stupidity.

I don't understand why North Koreans and South Koreans change their birth names. In other countries it is not easy to change your birth name, it requires a lot of bureaucracy, Just saying.

Most in Japan don't unless they take Japanese citizenship. In which case they can change name or keep their name.

In some countries upon taking citizenship you can choose to also change your names or name.

But back in Canada most Koreans and Chinese I knew used a western given name without changing their official name.

I have even seen Canadian passports with the birth name and in parentheses ( the western name) ex: Shishi (Angle) Laou. ( No I didn't make the names up they are the actual surname of one , given names and western name of another all friends)

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Yeah sure

Hundreds of thousands of Koreans came to Japan, many forcibly, to work in mines and factories during Japan’s colonization of the Korean Peninsula — a past that still strains relations between Japan and the Koreas.

Historical Fact: At the point in 1959 July, there were only 245 **Zainichi Koreans staying in Japan, who had been mobilized to work in Japan( about 600 thousands in total) , decided with their free to stay in Japan. The first ship to the paradise on earth, campaigned by Chong-ryon left the harbor in Niigata in 1959 Dec

**https://ja.wikisource.org/wiki/%E5%A4%A7%E5%8D%8A%E3%80%81%E8%87%AA%E7%94%B1%E6%84%8F%E6%80%9D%E3%81%A7%E5%B1%85%E4%BD%8F%E5%A4%96%E5%8B%99%E7%9C%81%E3%80%81%E5%9C%A8%E6%97%A5%E6%9C%9D%E9%AE%AE%E4%BA%BA%E3%81%A7%E7%99%BA%E8%A1%A8%E6%88%A6%E6%99%82%E5%BE%B4%E7%94%A8%E3%81%AF245%E4%BA%BA

“paradise on Earth.”!??

What were these people thinking of? has NK ever been any where near Paradise?