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I've suffered from all kinds of discrimination, but this was the first time I saw the word 'kill.' I was on strangely high alert, as if someone might be trying to kill me, and everyone I passed looked like an enemy.

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A third-year student at a Korean high school, referring to racist graffiti in Akabane Station in Tokyo. A group of researchers and lawyers has submitted a written request to the Justice Ministry, asking the government to take concrete measures to stop hate crimes against "Zainichi" Korean residents of Japan.

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That's rough. Being an immigrant in the country you were born in would be weird AF

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No one should be subjected to hate.

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to be honest many people in Japan are hidden racist.as white european may feel a bit different,asians and say black people may not.thing about antikorean feelings is very old and survives even until today.its difficult for me to understand how deep may be that hate/o both side/.

feel sorry abt guy with korean origin who in fact was born here and live possibly all of his life here-to be treated that bad.

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It’s a little bit a one-sided argumentation, isn’t it. They often have pictures of Kim in their classrooms and homes and that Kim sends threats and missiles flying to or over Japan, which is also a threat to non-Koreans living here, namely the Japanese majority. In other words, if those affronts or animosities put onto the agenda, then please all those indirect threats should be ended, such racist graffitis of the ones as well as all those Kim portraits the others hail to in their schools or daily life.

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Small minds. Small people.

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to be honest many people in Japan are hidden racist.

This issue is not racial discrimination.

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"...and everyone I passed looked like an enemy."

What a horrific way to 'celebrate' the 100th Anniversary of 1923 and the 'Kantō Massacre'! With that memory, it is not unreasonable for Korean people in Japan to take such public messaging seriously, and the more militaristic the public voice swings in Japan, the more serious the threat that rightwing maniacs could once again dominate the Japanese People and lead to atrocities such as 1923, however impossible they may seem today.

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Media never report voice of those who believe their lives affected by Zainichi Koreans

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