동아시아의 평화와 화해의 정치학 Scrapbook: Inside Japan's Mini North Korea

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For Unreported World, Secunder Kermani meets a curious community of Koreans who live in Japan but feel a close bond with one the world’s most repressive states, North Korea.

Their community is centred around the Chongryon, a powerful residents association with strong links to the North Korean regime.

Unreported World has been given rare access to try to understand what lies behind their beliefs.

Born and raised in Japan, this community has their own unique schooling system, complete with portraits of North Korean leaders in every classroom.

Secunder meets a volatile ultranationalist activist targeting the schools and a former Chongryon member suing the North Korean government.

Producer/Director: Liam O’Hare

Series Producer: Andy Lee

Executive Producer: Ed Fraser

Production Company: Channel 4 News

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For Unreported World, Secunder Kermani meets a curious community of Koreans who live in Japan but feel a close bond with one the world’s most repressive states, North Korea.

Their community is centred around the Chongryon, a powerful residents association with strong links to the North Korean regime.

Unreported World has been given rare access to try to understand what lies behind their beliefs.

Born and raised in Japan, this community has their own unique schooling system, complete with portraits of North Korean leaders in every classroom.

Secunder meets a volatile ultranationalist activist targeting the schools and a former Chongryon member suing the North Korean government.

Producer/Director: Liam O’Hare

Series Producer: Andy Lee

Executive Producer: Ed Fraser

Production Company: Channel 4 News

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@rachelcookie321

11 months ago (edited)

It makes me so sad to think about how excited that lady must of been when she boarded the boat to North Korea. She grew up getting told it was a paradise and she was finally getting to go to this paradise, only to find the opposite. She had no idea the 40 years of pain that was waiting for her when she boarded that boat. She must of felt so betrayed when she arrived and found the truth.

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@Isolanporzellator

11 months ago

I found it quite interesting that every time the reporter asked about human rights abuses in North Korea, nobody denied his accusation - they all just pointed the finger elsewhere saying "what about XYZ?" as if it's somehow okay to violate human rights as long as you're not the only one doing it.

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@konosaki

6 months ago

Although I am Japanese, I have always wondered about issues related to Korean schools.

In Korean schools, the Kim family is worshipped and North Korea is taught as the best Korea.

However, they live in Japan and have free access to all kinds of information. Of course, they can use the Internet without censorship.

Under these circumstances, how can they believe that North Korea is a wonderful country?

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@mitraleo4169

7 months ago

This video makes me so sad and angry at the same time. As a person who is living under the other big dictatorship, it baffles me how people cannot look past the propaganda, but at the same time it makes me so sad that these people believe this propaganda and are taking the freedom they have in Japan for granted. So many people from their homeland die every year just attempting to have half of their freedom.

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@dannyding9311

11 months ago

I don't understand why you're seeking funds from the Japanese government while still teaching about Korea and refusing to take down the Kim photo. The simple solution is for you to leave Japan, as it's normal anywhere else that if you want funding, you need to follow the standards and rules set by the country's government. No country will fund schools that treat the land they're standing on as an enemy and a dictator's country as their homeland, as it would be a waste of funds and resources

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@misandmis23

11 months ago (edited)

One aspect that raises questions for me is the fact that a group of North Korean people in Japan openly support North Korea's ideology and dictatorship without facing any consequences. They can enjoy a secure and materially rich life in a democratic country, demand voting rights without obtaining Japanese citizenship, and proudly express loyalty to the North Korean government. Meanwhile, the people who truly suffer the consequences of the regime are those living in North Korea. However, I can somewhat understand that these individuals may feel alienated in Japan and might need some sort of illusion to tell themselves they are not disconnected from everything, as they seek a sense of belonging and connection to their homeland.

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@user-yp4tr3cz8e

6 months ago

拉致した国のトップが飾られている学校に補助金を出すわけないでしょ、、

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@staninjapan07

7 months ago

I worked in one of these schools about 21 years ago, for just a couple of months.

The thing I remember more than anything is the amount of cigarettes the teachers smoked in the staff room and the amount of shouting they did at the kids. Strangely, they didn't even seem to be shouting out of anger. It was as though it was just the way they communicated. They were friendly enough with me, and the kids were friendly, if somewhat reticent to speak, but that was likely due to the kids having too little confidence in their English (and my having only beginner's Japanese at the time).

Don't often think about that time nowadays, but this was a nice reminder.

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@yoosanglee

11 months ago

As a South Korean, I am only surprised by Japan govt's 'generosity' toward such organization. I wonder more about how the government can allow such schools to exist.

If schools in South Korea teach such content, everyone who cooperates with it will face criminal charges and the school will be closed.

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@re-yoda

11 months ago

I, as a Japanese, am all against the racism in Japan towards Korean people living in Japan. I'm all for living together and creating a community, which unite us to form a new community.

But, although I don't hate people of North Korea, I can not get behind what they are doing in those communities. I do not hate them as people but I can not get behind on their beliefs. Praising a regime that has kidnapped so many children and has constantly been shooting missles over Japan while expecting us to like them as what they believe is nearly impossible.

They obviously know that the propaganda there is fake, otherwise they would've gone back already like many people in the past did and suffered as a result. I don't mind them living as Koreans, in fact I think it's beautiful that we can have diversity like that, but I can't get behind the fact they worship the ruthless leader of the North and expect us to not have negative feelings about them.

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@Nikhil_Tripathi_Japan

5 months ago

私日本に住んでいるインド人ですが、この動画見てすごくびっくりしてるんですよ。

こんなに北朝鮮が好きやったら、もうずっとそこに住めばいいと思うんだけどね。

レポーターさんは何回も人権のことを聞こうとしたんだけど、それに答えず他のところを言い出したりして、そして日本のことも言ったりして完全に嫌ってるでしょ日本を、、、それでも住み続けてるっていうのはわけ分からない

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@1234kingconan

6 months ago

Imagine living in Japan and being loyal to N Korea while prospering in a capitalist country. How blind do you have to be.

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@katerinafeiglova7886

9 months ago

This is so weird. Being brainwashed while living in North Korea where you have no access to information is totally understandable. But being brainwashed while living in Japan, one of the most developed countries in the world is just shocking.

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@iwastubed96

11 months ago

What I'm getting is these are some very privileged Japan-born North Koreans who feel like outsiders in Japan. And when they visit their "homeland", they were provided with a very comfortable and welcoming visit, so that they were not exposed to the hardships of regular N Korean people. This makes them cling to their tight-knit community and defend it as well as their leaders, even if it means turning a blind eye to the human rights abuse in their "homeland".

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@user-rj6rk4od5w

5 months ago

在日を完全な外国人とは思わないし、人柄的に何か違うとも思わんけど、日本を否定したり日本に対して反体制的な教育をするのにお金を出してくれというのは、少なくとも民主主義国家では難しい

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@emeraldbreeze5204

2 months ago (edited)

They should return to their beautiful homeland of North Korea. Why do they stubbornly continue to live in Japan? That's the biggest contradiction.

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@pizzaslob7039

11 months ago

It seems pretty simple, if they are so unhappy they can pack their bags and go to North Korea. I guarantee you that they would be crying and begging to go back to Japan after a few months.

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@jorgossergeivich6088

11 months ago (edited)

"What we saw in North Korea is quite different from what is reported, so it's not correct to call it brainwashing"

This is about as narrow-minded as one can get. Every trip to North Korea is carefully planned by the regime to not show people the horrors that are going on there. Have they ever wondered why they're not allowed to roam freely around the country?

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@inoscopedjfk8207

4 months ago

This is an insult to the countless people who have risked their lives to make it out of North Korea, or those that died trying.

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@user-ug8fu3rg3g

6 months ago (edited)

I'm Japanese living in Europe, and I'm not a racist. However, I'm totally against for subsidizing North Korean schools being existed in Japan which are close to North Korea. The city where I used to live has a North Korean school, and I made a femal friend who went to the school. We met in an afterschool activity school, and she said if students talk Japanese inside the North Korean school, teachers are mad at them and scold them because Japan is a hostile country. I still remember that I was totally shocked to hear about it. She also visited North Korea because of her school activity.

If North Korens really like their country, please move to North Korea.

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@Yutaro-Yoshii

11 months ago

I love that you took the full advantage of the gaijin card. I can imagine it'd be difficult for local reporters to investigate this far without getting labeled socially.

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@user-cv2hq4nx8r

11 months ago

As a Japanese, I don't understand why they don't go back to their great homeland. After the war, the Japanese government carried out a large-scale repatriation project to repatriate Koreans living in Japan. They are the descendants of those who did not return at that time. People who live in Japan but reject Japan's obligations and demand rights such as the right to vote.

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@calvingunarto7865

7 months ago

Cannot blame japan actually, they are so generous even allowed this school to operate

@Bohemian0522

7 months ago (edited)

I'm very confused, if they love North Korea so much, why don't they just leave Japan and move back to their motherland? I'm neither Japanese nor Korean, so I think I'm unbiased on this topic. I can kind of understand why some of the Japanese people are against these schools, because they are teaching radical views, or even anti-Japanese propaganda to their students. North Korea is an enemy of the state, why should Japanese people tolerate such a school existing on their soil?

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@user-eb9ij5dj9o

10 months ago (edited)

I am surprised by how generous Japanese government is for letting this kind of school exist on Japanese soil, that is really weird

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@coconut3248

11 months ago

옛날 조선학교 관계자가 일본인 납치에 관여하거나 조선학교 전 교장이 각성제 밀수에 관여한 사건이 있었습니다. 지금 일본 바다에 미사일 발사하는 북한을 찬양하는 학교가 일본에 있는 의미를 이해할 수 없다.

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@gardengalsu

7 months ago

Very insightful.

@211teitake

5 months ago

The fact that they remain in Japan is the clear indicator that things are horrible in North Korea.

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@ajiken123

11 months ago

People who just visited PyongYang for a few days don't know whole NK at all. PyongYang is a huge showcase for visitors.

In this video, the lady Kawasaki who was born as a 2nd generation Korean in Japan and moved to NK and lived for over 40years, she is the only one who knows REAL North Korea.

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@dtpbg25

11 months ago

差別って便利な言葉だね！

不都合なことがあればすべて差別で自分のことを省みたことがないからこんな他責的な大人になったんだよ

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@johnkrummel2956

5 months ago

excellent documentary!

@biwako_117

8 months ago

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「安心しました」wwww

早よ帰れよwww

@carynmartin6053

11 months ago (edited)

Omg, this kid didn't experience anything like the average poor north Korean citizen did, like so many independent reporters have been told about from the few that managed to escape and live to tell. This kid is either dreaming or he grew up privileged and has no idea what he's defending

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@TheBlueFlaming0

9 months ago (edited)

I watched a YouTuber who was born and raised in North Korea but escaped and now settle down in Japan. He talks how much freedom he gained when he live in South Korea and Japan, and how grateful life it is. As a Chinese in Japan I won’t say they are right or wrong, but I know that freedom is a precious thing, especially escaped from a brainwashed environment at once.

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@_widas_

8 months ago

Great video

@krp_618

4 months ago

This video was interesting. I hope I could hear the person's unclipped interview though

@pqfire0950

11 months ago (edited)

As an immigrant myself I understand loving your homeland. I love my homeland too but I know that there's a dictator there that I could never support. This is a really bizarre situation happening and I feel like if they really hate Japan and feel that North Korea is the best place to be then they should try to just go there. I feel like most of them would regret it though, but sometimes a hard dose of reality is needed.

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@guyklc

11 months ago

What I find interesting is that even though this school emphasizes that the students are North Koreans at heart, so many of these Zainichi Koreans speak in Japanese, and it's pretty clear to me that many of them speak better Japanese than Korean.

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@hyangsu911

7 months ago

Thank you for your documentary. I am a graduate of Korean School in Kobe. Now I am supporting for the activity of Ms. Eiko Kawasaki. Korean Schools should be changed for the 4th, 5th generation children.

@DynamicMoment-dl2xx

2 months ago (edited)

Why don't they return to their own homeland of North Korea Though all the Japanese very strongly hope it.

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@portiarose6914

8 months ago

being in a country where you know your not necessarily welcome and your discriminated against because of that can play a major role in how you view the world. it builds this love hate relationship where you wouldn’t consider the country you currently reside in as paradise and you would love to be where you think you belong but at the same time “home” is not really home either ️.

i would love to look at this through a black and white lens but i just don’t think it’s that simple.

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@ogc3748

4 months ago (edited)

I feel sad for them, honestly. North Koreans, who strongly value racial purity, will never accept them as true Koreans. If they actually decide to move to North Korea for some reason, they'll probably face discriminations worse than they did in Japan.

They don't consider Japan their home. Yet they are blissfully unaware of the fact that North Korea definitely does not want them, and that they are already more Japanese than Korean.

@wealthiness

11 months ago

The craving for belonging is so strong that many don't see the bads as long as it means they feel welcome.

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@Ramses060784

11 months ago

That apply to everything

@deadby15

11 months ago

We now consider the Medieval society brutal and unjust, but prolly back in those days people just thought it was just normal.

Likewise, people in the future will be appalled at the utter injustice and cruelty our society takes for granted now.

@UnShredded

11 months ago

Wow, you managed to put one feature of human nature in words.

@notamoonraker

11 months ago

Ironically they stay in Japan rather than move into North Korea, lol

@parikhan6599

11 months ago

@notamoonraker exactly!! Celebrating one's cultural roots is significant but why celebrate terrorists? And if they love their 'leaders' so much why do they live in a democratic country? This is similar to the islamic mindset. They don't want other religions thrive in their countries but brazenly impose their religion in western countries

@derekwellwood5454

11 months ago

Sounds like scientology

@mikiohirata9627

11 months ago

And they don't really know how these Japanese born Koreans are considered

in motherland until you move and live there. Please read my story of my long lost

Korean friend of mine whose family gone back in 1950s.

@RonLarhz

11 months ago

Essentially what religion/the religious is.

@LumiSisuSusi

11 months ago

In Welsh we have a word, "Hiraeth" it means "a deep longing for something". Some say it's like "homesickness" but far more deep and profound.

@rdxzero

11 months ago

That's one reason why gangs are appealing. If the child only has an abusive home to go to, the gangs will fill that gap.

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@user-ru1ww4rz6v

11 months ago

17:00この女性の話すことが本当なら今すぐに北朝鮮に住めばいいのに。その暖かくていい人達に囲まれながら生きていくのが幸せなんだと思うよ。

差別されながら嫌いな日本に住み続ける必要なんて無いよ。

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@kpopfam9849

11 months ago

@user-pu3yq3gj2p im pretty sure she was being sarcastic

@oc-ek3mlpguft

9 months ago

netouyo...

@SaharshJeetSingh

2 weeks ago

My father knew a korean Japanese guy. He came to Japan to escape the compulsory military service. He used to degrade Japan and hated it. I wonder why people still live in a country they despise. I mean go back if you don't like it. I don't like people who complain all day and do not realise how lucky they are.

@JD-fx9ly

7 months ago

It's crazy, I'm not a full Japanese speaker (I'm learning, but nowhere near fluent) but I could hear their heavy Japanese accents as they spoke Korean

@purgatorysystem2126

11 months ago (edited)

This whole situation is unfortunate. The school is not teaching the reality behind North Korea. Meanwhile, the understandable anger towards these schools are misdirected with discrimination, which likely reinforces the misguided beliefs through alienation. Nobody is at peace here. But after hearing the woman's 40 yr nightmarish tale, I think the "let people choose where they want to live" is too simplistic and lacking the compassion needed to enable change. These people should be educated, not ridiculed.

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@augusth8212

11 months ago (edited)

During 1910-1945 Korea was not colonized but Japan was colonized. Authorites in Japan exploited people of Japan, and invested most of the money to develop/educate/modernize Korea (and Manchuria and Taiwan). Sequence (and covered facts) behind those goes back 400 years, 700 years or 1400 years...

@slowcuber_aze

10 months ago

@augusth8212 I thought, Japan was colonized since 46 till 53

@Gnasheress

10 months ago

You can’t help someone who doesn’t want to be helped.

@leeshybaby9541

9 months ago

If they go move to North Korea they'll get educated real quick

@wsmu

9 months ago (edited)

@augusth8212 this is such a bad-faith take on Japanese atrocities across Asia.

@floralfancy7814

8 months ago (edited)

@augusth8212 Huh I thought Korea was taken over by Japan for a while, Koreans know it and recall it well.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korea_under_Japanese_rule

@floralfancy7814

8 months ago (edited)

@leeshybaby9541 Really because I watched another documentary here it is: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PmmKNGMI9F8. It is said that most North Korean defectors are actually poorly educated and often have to take on menial jobs that don't require much learning.

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@pipijapija

7 months ago (edited)

Hopefully, there will be a discussion between the ladies, the one who returned after 40 years and the one who just went back and forth between Japan and North Korea. In one frame not separated... Just curious about the collaboration thought.

@FrozenBusChannel

4 months ago

It's ironic that the North Korean school is teaching about 酒池肉林 (as seen on the blackboard).

It translates to "lakes of wine and forests of meat", some very extravagant thing an ancient Chinese emperor made when his people were probably starving.

Does that remind us of some Kim... um...

@gamo888

11 months ago (edited)

本題と全く関係ないけど、学校で先生が授業してる時の言葉が関西弁のイントネーションにしか聞こえんかった。

よく聞いたら日本語じゃなくてびっくりしたわ。

そんなとこまで関西訛り強くなるんか…

あと右派のおっちゃんも輩みたいでなかなか怖かったけど、ユンギさん達の考えもある種怖い。

差別と思われたくないけど、祖国が北朝鮮であることに誇りを持って、北朝鮮の方が温かいというならそっちに住めば良いと思うわ。

日本で高校の無償化なんて訴えてないでさ。

無理して住みづらい日本に住むことなんてないのに。

めちゃくちゃ利己的やん。

@mughug9616

7 months ago

08:00 - A Chongryon schoolgirl, born in Japan from a family that most likely has generationally been born and lived in Japan and benefitted from a Japanese society/infrastructure - identifies HER country as 'North Korea'. It would be interesting to know what are her loyalties to Japan?

@jakekim2104

11 months ago (edited)

일본의 안정되고 안락한 생활은 즐기고 싶은데 북한의 사상을 찬양하는 모순 ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ 그리고 설령 한민족에 대한 염원이 있다면 남한으로 망명하거나 하면 될 일….정 북한을 따르고 싶으면 북한 가서 살아야 하지 않나?? 이것도 아니고 저것도 아니고 일본 입장에선 싫어하는게 너무나 당연함

@buckybarns5984

11 months ago

If they don’t like japan anymore, I don’t see what stops them from leaving. If they want to go to South Korea or diffract north, no one is stopping them. As far as I see it, you live in japan, so you must abide by Japanese law. Sovereign citizens don’t exist there, or really anywhere anymore. Therefor if you don’t like what’s being preached in your country, don’t let the door hit you on the way out

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@user-lg3fq8yj2m

7 months ago (edited)

I, as a Japanese, am shocked by how the relationship between Japan and North Korea is rough. But simultaneously I kind of thought that I didn't want them to put the authority's pictures up the wall since they have been threatening our lives including shooting missiles towards Japan once in a while. To be honest it is almost impossible to agree with each other fully but I believe we both have a responsibility to try to get along with.

Apart from that, It is clear the propaganda that North Koreans in the video were claiming is fake.

@maisnamraju5142

6 months ago

just curious as to why they don't want to move back to Korea if they are so emotionally attached to it ?

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@user-pl1xr5wy8e

9 months ago

My korean-japanese friends have gotten into fights with north korean students before... they told me how aggressive the north korean kids are. My friends retain a strong and deep connection to their korean heritage and adapts seamlessly with japanese culture as well. They can go anywhere in the world and make friends and thrive. I personally think that's a great gift to have (being able to bond with other people and other culture)

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@_lumbel_9094

11 months ago

As a Japanese, I don't want to take the side of Japan and agree on what we have done to Koreans in general but this time I have to say that this really is a selfish behavior of those, who practise it and believe in this ideology. If they are so much against Japan and want to resist the government, why don't they emigrate to (North) Korea but instead insist on coming back to Japan. Yes I am sorry that they have to experience such hardship and obstacles in their every day life but they brought a major part of it by themselfs by staying in the country/not adopting the local rules.

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@poplix2704

11 months ago

As a complete and utter outsider, I agree. If they aren't happy with Japan's government, but they do like North Korean government/leaders, they should go there instead of Japan. Its a logical conclusion from reasoning.

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@threezero4491

11 months ago

Action speak louder then word, they prefer japan more then korea.

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@auroraborealis4878

11 months ago

Do you agree though that they’re not adopting the local rules and customs bc they are already persecuted and isolated by the majority population?

@alembess9129

11 months ago

Yeah, they like North Korea? Live there! You are right.

@jl63023

11 months ago

@auroraborealis4878 Exactly, it's Japan's ethno-nationalist leanings and it's failure to integrate these minorities, which unfortunately fell within their borders, contributes to this feedback loop as NK seems like the only entity willing to support them in a society that is hellbent on marginalizing them. This pattern repeats in Europe with Turkish and South Asian immigrants. Minorities that aren't properly integrated with their host countries are extremely prone to diasporic nationalism and the more First World countries fail to understand this, the more they will face issues with multiculturalism

@lixxiin777

11 months ago (edited)

@jl63023 i can agree. im filipino and i live in australia. i love this country and im so privileged to live a life here, but im so discriminated against it makes me want to move back to the philippines, even though thats probably even worse. im also SO proud of being a pinoy its unbearable sometimes. i support the ph so much even though i dont live there. its hard

@max00son

11 months ago

You have every right to criticize these silly geese, for all the demands they have, knowing that Japan (a nation so rich with language, history, folklore, values, culture, etc.) is willing to go so far as to play patsy with whatever these Korean-Japanese desire. It’s as if they are taking advantage of their own country’s kindness. I know you didn’t ask this about me, but I’m a Micronesian-American (Pacific Islander). And believe you, me… I know what Japan did during the 2nd World War. What with the war crimes in the past, including but not limited to the “pleasure women” catastrophe. I know this well because my Grandmother on my Mom’s side was the product of a Micronesian native Woman being auctioned off and sold to a Japanese imperial trooper as a wife, stationed in Mohen Chuuk during their conquering of the region of Micronesia in the pacific. I’m not trying to dig up the past, but instead I’m trying to say that this was imperial Japan then, and you weren’t there. I know you mean well, truly but please stop apologizing and/or feeling guilt for something you didn’t do. You may think Japan deserves to apologize for what they did, fair enough, but I’m a guy who knows how to count his blessings, and Japan is doing better now than they were back in WW2. As for their other problems today like toxic work culture, population decline, and everything else… I won’t speak on that because I know nothing of it, and out of respect to Japan and its people, I won’t PRETEND to act like I know. Hope this message finds you well. God bless.

@josh4897

11 months ago

@jl63023 Completely wrong argument. They could easily return to North Korea yet they choose to stay in Japan, while supporting a regime that sends ballistic missiles over the Japanese islands.

@yoloi2470

11 months ago

@josh4897 well. Its a kind of nationalism that every abroad citizen have over their ancestral motherland. The reason why they stayed on japan is due to dependency as they may not be accepted or integrated in NK.

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@ren7a8ero

6 months ago

I really liked how you just show all the sides and takes about the struggle. A real delicate situation where government abuses made the lives of people harder for generations.

I hope people can live in peace being who they are.

@LittleNala

5 months ago

In all that time, I never realised there was a North Korean community! People I knew were open about hating China and the Chinese, but they were not so open about their feeling for Koreans.

@zheyuezhao456

11 months ago

How is this allowed to exist in Japan? That is shocking. This is like if there is a Al Qaeda high school in the US.

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@sadfit5518

11 months ago

I live in Japan but I didn’t even know there was a kind of brainwashing school existing here

@Shanaoh

11 months ago

Japan has it’s pros and cons but at the end of the day, Japan is a democracy and under the Japanese constitution, everyone has the right to free speech. While I don’t agree with what they’re teaching, I believe that it should not be in anyone’s power to take that right away from them.

@okanelover

11 months ago

@sadfit5518 same, i never thought these schools existed

@Kamikazekims

11 months ago

what you forget is in America even if you don't like it Al Qaeda could easily open a private school and teach it's ideas to the students. I'm sure the government would put them on some kind of government watch list but still it's full in there legal right to operate such activities in America.

@user-ml4dg6zp2v

2 months ago

한국어 자막이 있으면 좋겠네요 ㅠㅠㅠ혹시 한글로 간단하게라도 요약해주실 분 있을까요?

@AerikVon

7 months ago

Bizarre and incredible

@raibyo

5 months ago

It's really ironic that everytime the interviewer ask about North Korea's human rights violations, these people just point fingers at other places in the world instead of denying or actually giving an answer. Like "what about this country, what about XYZ", they're also doing the same thing", as if it's ok to do it when you're not the only one. Even more ironic that they have a chance to go to South Korea or North Korea yet stay in Japan and continue to say these things.

@user-eo4ek5od7i

11 months ago (edited)

なんで日本に住むの？

単純に気になるだけ

住むのが大変なら北に帰ればいい話だし、、、

辛い思いしてまで日本に住むことないと思うよ？

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@user-vf7cn3oy8g

11 months ago (edited)

それは日本人なら誰でも抱く素朴な疑問。이것은 일본인이면 누구든지 품는 소박한 의문.

@Sheskuno

11 months ago

ほんとにそれ〜、日本を乗っ取ろうとしてるのかもねはは

@rudranilghosh2187

11 months ago

I am Indian. I respect Japan.

@vascotelesdagama6072

8 months ago

Weird that we mostly see musical education throughout the video. I'd love to know the weekly schedule of one class.

@r9740

11 months ago

動画の趣旨と外れるけれど韓国語・朝鮮語をあとから学んだ人のように、イントネーションが日本語に準じているところが興味深い

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@annnee6409

11 months ago (edited)

I admire Eiko Kawasaki for what she has gone through and suing the North Korean government.

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@redsky7100

11 months ago

As a Korean living in South Korea, I don't support Korean school in Japan worshipping the worst dictator North Korean regime. I don't feel any connection to them even though they speak the same language.

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@ClarenceTan92

11 months ago

I think it's pretty ridiculous to ask for funding and not give in to their demands. Negotiation is a give and take thing. You can't be demanding everything and expecting the other party give in to your every demand. I think it is a good compromise to funding given if what they want is to teach extra "Korean" curricular on top of the regular curriculum of Japanese schools. Then they should be given all right to funding. However what they are asking for is funding for a curriculum not approved and they are unwilling to even bulge.

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@misandmis23

11 months ago (edited)

I'm not entirely certain if translating 朝鮮 (cho-sen) to "Korea" is accurate, as many people in Japan may interpret it as referring specifically to North Korea in this case. I don't see any issues with having Korean schools in Japan; however, it is problematic if these schools teach North Korean national ideology, which goes against Japan's fundamental principles. If these schools are seeking financial support from the Japanese government, it becomes even more important for them to adhere to local systems and laws, similar to American schools in Japan.

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@franceskronenwett3539

8 months ago

Japanese rule in both Koreas came to an end after World War II and all those responsible are no longer living. The North Koreans living in Japan seem to be hell bent on keeping this hate alive which is extremely disturbing. If I was Japanese I would feel very uneasy about having schools in my country which were clearly sympathetic towards a country with the most brutal regime in the world. The Japanese lady who escaped from North Korea should speak to the students at these North Korean schools about the terrible experience she had. However they would probably say she was just quoting capitalist propaganda. If they think that North Korea is so fantastic then maybe they should go and live there.

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@st.constantinus8140

11 months ago

학교에 김씨 일가 사진 걸려있는거 역겹네! 북한이 그렇게 좋으면 북한으로 돌아가라 일본에서 안정되고 부유한 생활을 즐기면서 가난한 북한을 찬양하는게 정말 이해가 안되고 혐오스럽다

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@dagdnoob

11 months ago

𝐊𝐢𝐦 𝐉𝐨𝐧𝐠 𝐔𝐧 Bro think he funny

@user-wo8st2pr4c

11 months ago

その通りです

@lacity8701

11 months ago

Exactly!間違いない️

@user-uh74fdk83n

7 months ago

와 첫 한국어 댓글

@jcnot9712

8 months ago

they should make an anime about this community

@Sanjeog02

11 months ago

Thank you for this coverage.

@vert2552

9 months ago

Its very cool to learn about part of japan i didnt know almost anything about. Once in Kyoto i met member of Yakuza in onsen and had plenty of talk. He wasn't first Yakzuza i met, but surely was the most amazing one. He actually told me alot about current (at the time, it was some years ago) state of Yakuza and all, but he also told me that his family is from Korea and they moved during Korean wars but he said he hated japan at first but then started to love it. It was really interesting and i wish i had a chance to ask him more about it

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@user-ln4pe4lg7o

3 months ago

wow living for 15 years in Japan never met yakuza, did he tell you he was yakuza? I'm very interested.

@vert2552

3 months ago

@user-ln4pe4lg7o i must say it was quite few years back so i dont remember exactly how the conversation went.. but when i went to outside baths, either he was there alone or i was first one and he came in soon after me but it was obvious just by looking at him he was yakuza. He had this yanki look to him and obviously tattoos from feet up to his neck. At first we didnt talk... rather obviously too :P, he may have said something to me and i have responded? (I dont remember if he assumed i speak japanese and we just went off or if once i responded he knew and then we got to talk) but we started talking, bit funny because we were talking about me being in japan and about yakuza and all, and then random japanese young guy came (i think he said he was 21? The second he entered, he saw the yakuza guy, he started walking out and yakuza guy told him that its find to stay, soon we had convo all 3. I kinda felt bad for the other guy because he asked him where he works and what he does and started comparing him to me. That despite my age im so far from home, speaking language and all, and that the other guy should work harder :P

Thet he was super nice saying he is thankful that people like me are coming to Japan, actually learning the culture, being interested in it and protecting it too, sonething that more and more 'youngsters' dont care about.

We talked about visa problems too

Also he joked (i assume :P) that if i ever have any problem in japan to just come over and ask his family (yakuza) for help :D

@fishnsteve

7 months ago

I love this place called Keeyoto

@yuutoasmr

3 weeks ago

wow, very interesting

@samsonkth

9 months ago (edited)

I normally watch history and politics related content on youtube and click this video because it popped up on my recommended list. This whole video got me speechless from the North Korea school to the school being in Japan to some of the Koreans in this video are more from the South but aligns with the North more. I don't know what's happening at all. I have to go back to watch the video from start to finish just to wrap my head around. I'm actually flabbergasted right now.

@tomjohnson5191

11 months ago

Irony is they probably don’t want to live in N Korea.

@isabelamarie5004

6 months ago

Why can they just go back to North Korea

@lindas4380

11 months ago

I'm a Korean-American and heavily agree with the top comment here. Conforming to the country you live in and aligning yourself to the cultural standards there are what's key to being accepted. If these North Koreans here want to be accepted and get funding, why don't they try to open their boundaries to the Japanese? I'm sure Japanese people would be much less hostile if these North Koreans would move away from what is a flawed regime. You can't demand something from the government that you consider an enemy, or demand things from a society you refuse to involve yourself in.

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@minecrafter7343

10 months ago

You're missing the context that these people are survivors of a genocide by the Japanese Empire during WW2 and unlike Germany, there was no widespread recognition in Japan of the crimes perpetrated against Koreans. Furthermore, Japanese continued to regard Koreans even after the war as outsiders who were not and never would be welcome in Japan. This did not start to change until the 1980s when South Korea changed from a nationalist dictatorship to a more open country and Japan began doing business with them.

@FransceneJK98

10 months ago

Exactly. They should go move to NK then if they love it so much.

@kevinluh5086

9 months ago

@minecrafter7343 It's the Korean government's responsibility to take care of Koreans. People need to grow up.

@MUZUKUN-YT

9 months ago (edited)

@kevinluh5086 You have to note that North Korea does business with various countries, but ever since the sanctions, the businesses outside of their country has gotten weaker. I honestly don't see any problem with things like this. If that's the case, you might as well say goodbye to freedom of information. Practically, it's good that Japan is keeping these schools up, as it's our only source for information on North Korea as misinformation about North Korea is no doubtly everywhere.

@zhenyucai8688

9 months ago

@minecrafter7343 Doesn't matter that's selfish af from the adults. Pure degen behavior. If they cared about the children prospering and living a better life they would let go of their past. Japan isn't the same country as it was during WW2 can't say the same about N Korea.

@Krytern

9 months ago

@minecrafter7343 No they're not survivors. Their ancestors are several generations ago not the same thing in the slightest. When you're 4th, 5th, 6th generation living in Japan then you're Japanese and should learn to accept it.

@theharshtruthoutthere

9 months ago

Ephesians 5:11 And have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather reprove them.

Ephesians 6:12 For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places. For we wrestle not against flesh and blood,= not against human beings. All humans are our Neighbors, whom we are called to LOVE not hate not abuse, LOVE.

And what is LOVE?

John 15:13 Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.

John 7:24 Judge not according to the appearance, but judge righteous judgment.

Love = laying down ones own life for their loved ones and giving out RIGHTEOUS JUDGMENT.

How many amongst us LOVE? - FEW How many amongst us HATE? - MANY

(many shall perish AWAY into everlasting torment. Death have never meant - out from existence. Mankind have given death a meaning it never had, just because for the love for sins and for darkness.) Hosea 4:6 My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge: because thou hast rejected knowledge, I will also reject thee, that thou shalt be no priest to me: seeing thou hast forgotten the law of thy God, I will also forget thy children.

John 8:32 And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.

Because of all the insanity which runs wild, wise souls turn to GOD, seek Him, get to know and understand HIM through reading and studying BIBLE with hunger for truth 24/7/365.

In return getting:

- healed

-saved

- wisdom and understanding about heavenly things

- peace

-love

- strength

- freed

- THE COMFORTER

Matthew 11:28 Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.

John 14:27 Peace I leave with you, my peace I give unto you: not as the world giveth, give I unto you. Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid.

Isaiah 55:6 Seek ye the LORD while he may be found, call ye upon him while he is near:

@marekdeboer7977

9 months ago

So you are Asian-American.

@rakuraku8043

9 months ago

@FransceneJK98 Well.... we'd wish life was that simple right?? Take a look at the huge amount of Chinese people living in the West... the ones with close ties to China, they are still backing the Communist regime... but they are not stupid either... they enjoy the education/environment/freedom say.. in the US/Canada/Australia but they also want to save face by confronting any negative views of their homeland! Just remember, life is full of contradictions, double standards and self-denial.. always! you just pick your battle!

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@JRFrancisco20088

8 months ago

It's just life. Here in the U.S. some people from the South still cling to the past during the Civil War, which took place over 150 years ago. They still fly the Confederate (southern) flag and even have statues dedicated to their war heroes. They claim it's part of their history and heritage while others see it as a dark side of American history. To each his own. Something you can't do in North Korea. Remember that.

@suzuki3yuya

3 months ago

This school only admits students who are Korean or have Korean roots.

Although this school is located in Japan, it intentionally discriminates against non-Korean children and does not allow them to enroll.

I do not understand why a private school, let alone a Japanese school, would seek subsidies from the Japanese government when it does not admit Japanese students.

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@ilovevloging100

7 months ago

Considering the intense bullying the Koreans get in Japan it is no surprise that they would turn to an ideology that “claims” it would protect them, it is pretty hard to strive in a country that repeatedly states that they don’t want you, I come from a similar situation so I do kind of get it, you can’t blame only the Koreans here

@golDroger88

11 months ago

Jesus the argument of these activists is basically "yeah I kicked the cat but Japan kicked the dog so it doesn't matter that I kicked the cat". This shit doesn't work with someone that understands basic logic.

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@raoyin1851

8 months ago

I feel sorry for them since most people including the host can’t take off their prejudices towards them. What’s the point of exposing themselves to an outer world that can’t understand them? I scroll down and barely find a comment on appreciating the efforts he made to run the school.

@christopherdessources

7 months ago

While i disagree with the way theyre doing it, i think there is still some value in preserving ones culture by teaching it in school. Many would benefit from this.

@LL-bk8us

11 months ago

I’m a foreigner who live in Japan too. I don’t understand what that boy and his group wants more from Japan? You opened your own country’s school in the land of your previous enemy, it’s good enough that they allowed it, and they keep asking for more and even worse instead of thanking them for the opportunities but they flip the side as if they were still a victim. Sounds like a typical narcissist who plays victims or letting a homeless staying to your house, but instead of leaving they keep asking for more and finally took over your house.

To be fair..if they complained a lot about how Japanese people and government are, why they don’t want go back to NK since they adore it so much and feeling much safer? It doesn’t make sense. To me they are totally living in denial

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@unagisan9110

11 months ago

ワタシの高校は北朝鮮学校の近くの高校で良くむこうの生徒とすれ違いましたけど、何もしてない(私自身は若くて違いがわからなかった)のに睨まれたり舌打ちされてましたよ。卒業してからそういえばあの制服学校は北朝鮮学校だったなと思いだして、あとあと気がつきましたけど向こうから喧嘩ふっかけた可能性もあるよね？

@mudminder

7 months ago

Just finished watching the video. I was struck by the complete lack of mention of South Korea. The narrator refers to the many Korean schools in Japan and crafts his story as if all are affiliated and supported by North Korea. What about South Korea? I wonder if many of the “Korean Schools” are actually affiliated with South Korea. I am suspicious that the hook on this piece is the great influence of North Korea on Japanese based Koreans via “Korean Schools” when I suspect Korean culture and language is taught at many “Korean Schools” that align with South Korea and democratic values antithetical to North Korea.

@mikiohirata9627

11 months ago

I was born in post war outskirts of Tokyo in 1947. Yes I did witness some Korean people

being discriminated around me as there were quite a bit of animosities between Japanese and Korean adults in the community where I lived.

I felt very conflicted and confused in the situations like that since I had no problem mingling with their Korean children and my mother says anything disparaging or

discriminating of Korean people.

However It was obvious they were separated from ordinary Japanese community by where

they'd set up their house /shacks. Inside the river dikes near the river where it could be

flooded and washed away if there was a storm or flush flood not that it happened a lot

but even 8 or so year old I could tell it was not an ideal place for a house hold.

My dearest friend was 2 years older than me and he was very kind and helped me cope with

bullies since I was small.

A few years later he said his family is going back to (North ) Korea. He was 15 years old I was really crushed that my best friend whom I considered more of my brother than the real

ones. But kids don't make the decisions so up he went with his family.

Only later i found out they chose to go back to North since they had relative there.

some years past and I started reading /hearing about what happened to returnees like my

friend's family. How they are discriminated once they went back HOME that they are spies

or spoilers of western corruptions etc. etc.

I was crushed the second time thinking how terrible it must have been to my friend and his family after all that.

Jump to now, I'm an expat living in the US and removed from today's situations of North Korean and Japanese relations as clearly as someone living in Japan.

However After watching this documentary I'd like for Japanese government to send these

Korean school students to live in home stay programs in North Korea even for 2-3 wks

to see reality is different from rose color tinted North Korean government propaganda

situations. I'm certain that the citizens there for the most part are wonderful kind hearted

people as long as they could get hold of the essentials and food. Then we should ask them

what they really think when they come back to safe haven of Japan.

Brain washing can be done anywhere very easily as long as this double standard schooling

systems are allowed to continue.

That's the peril of democratic governments that touts freedom of ideas/expressions and

associations. It's a double edge sward politically.

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@dustycarrier4413

11 months ago

The issue is that anyone sent to Korea as part of a "homestay" program is neither guaranteed to return, nor guaranteed to get a picture of reality.

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@deidradahl2802

11 months ago

The sanctions have everything to do with North Korea's suffering. The same with Cuba, and many other countries the USA has invaded. What would happen if Korea had united and remained as one country? It would be a very prosperous country just like Vietnam, a peaceful prosperous communist/ socialists country

@faxmachine5306

11 months ago

@deidradahl2802 Why not ask the South Korean people whether they want to be reunited with the North? It's not guaranteed that a united korea under north korea would be prosperous.

@deidradahl2802

11 months ago

@faxmachine5306 After the war, if there was no interference from all sides they would have been united and be as prosperous as Vietnam. Now it's too late, difference in culture etc., '''Too much water under the bridge''

@kimcheezy3433

11 months ago (edited)

@deidradahl2802 South Korea today is more prosperous than Vietnam.

@deidradahl2802

11 months ago (edited)

@kimcheezy3433 Read carefully. IF all the communists countries change from communism to Democracy tomorrow, then South Korea and Japan would not be so rich, because the trade would be divided up more. This wealth by Korea and Japan is superficial. The USA is giving most of the trade to them to show the communists countries how wealthy they could be with democracy.

@deidradahl2802

11 months ago

@kimcheezy3433 The USA is now reaching out to Vietnam to exchange more trade, so lets see how long SK will be more prosperous

@jvarona3057

11 months ago

@deidradahl2802 lol

@catnokimochi

11 months ago

@deidradahl2802 since when was Vietnam, a still firmly 3rd-world state, a "prosperous country"??

Funniest thing I've ever read this year.

@matmatsuzaki2619

11 months ago

Japanese dont do this in US or in Europe. koreans just cant get along. its impossible. Its more sad than with black kids in US with discriminations. I have so many Chinese friends, most are great. Totally different from koreans. Even my hispanic friends are 1000 times better. I stay way from koreans as far as I can.

@cricri6077

11 months ago

Big brainwashing in US schools problem too...

I dream of neutral news and education, sadly its not the case and communism is described as wonderful when it is just as bad or worst ( considering the number of dead) as na zism

@alva--._..l-._.-l.._.--

11 months ago

@matmatsuzaki2619 I'll say that living by those stereotyped rules you'll be missing a lot the world and humanity has to offer.

@hyunmichellelee1583

10 months ago

@faxmachine5306 yeah nah, thank you for asking but big NO

@yamiscape

10 months ago

@matmatsuzaki2619 far right nationalist alert

@OliveDasi

10 months ago

Your entire post and life is extremely interesting, thoughtful, and kind. The entire situation is complex, but you are right. I think you touch on an important topic though when you say that you are "certain that the citizens there for the most part are wonderful kind hearted people." Geography & Geospaital Intelligence is my major and this is something I wish many people understood. In so many cultures and countries what you hear about on the news or see about the government is not even close to how the people of the country are. Many people dislike their governments and either cannot speak up about it, cannot change it despite being in "democratic" systems (due to how votes are conducted, gerrymandering, etc.), or other various factors. I feel that if we were able to separate the people from the governments that "represent" them, it would help see each other as humans, which is what we are. Unfortunately with the rise of the anonymity of the internet in many cases it furthers that separation. Learning about day-to-day lives of each other would be so beneficial to see how people around the world actually live instead of what our what our bias want to believe. We are all just trying to get by. We are all just human.

@iKilleas

10 months ago

Yeah, let them try to live at north korea and differentiate at current goverment situation and economic stability and how free is Japan vs North Korea now. Maybe its the best.

@MUZUKUN-YT

9 months ago

Pay attention to this you stated that you read this / heard this, but where did you hear it, where did you read it? Who is the one that gave the information? I feel that this is just misinformation that you read.

@MUZUKUN-YT

9 months ago

@deidradahl2802 OH MY GOD I've been waiting for this reply

@MUZUKUN-YT

9 months ago

@catnokimochi Many countries are moving their trade from China over to Vietnam which recently has been seeing some rapid economic growth due to new technology and infrastructure coming from those countries including the USA. Perhaps consider reading economics.

@deidradahl2802

9 months ago

@MUZUKUN-YT You are welcome, friend

@NDE108

8 months ago

Great post! Kyoto is such a beautiful city, and incomparable to North Korea... Truly, these young students need to live for an extended time in the country they love.

@MUZUKUN-YT

8 months ago

@NDE108 I didn't know cities had beauty standards.

@itsyejy

11 months ago

If you are living in Japan, follow their rules. It doesn't matter what your identity is.

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@tacidian7573

11 months ago

Another case of "when in Rome, do as the Romans do"

@dhanameetsnao

11 months ago

Yes, everyone needs to follow the rules. Agreed.

@foughtthelol

11 months ago

Why bother when there is no consequence? North Koreans are not exactly known for their empathy.

@Kamikazekims

11 months ago

i agree for the most part. yes follow the rules and customs but these kids where born in japan. they're legally Japanese from my understanding don't they deserve the right to decide how they want there nation ruled and how they as people want to be treated ?

@vortolex

11 months ago

Assimilation is the tendency of oppression for the oppressed. Neither is undone unethical Values views.

@therewasoldcringe

9 months ago

they speak japanese with strangers. why cant russoids in europe do the same

@downtomars6268

9 months ago

@Kamikazekims Exactly. It seems many want to repress their decisions and learnings.

@Krytern

9 months ago

Without rules we live with the animals

@KM-nt6vf

9 months ago (edited)

@Kamikazekims No. They are not Japanese but Korean. Their passports are Korean passports, not Japanese ones... Japanese government does not allow its citizens to have two or more than two passports. If they are Japanese, yes, they deserve the right to decide how they want.

@robertisham5279

9 months ago

Yeah why don't they just go to South Korea what are they doing in Japan?

@markuchiha7737

8 months ago

Simple

@theoryianabsolute8777

8 months ago

no, not always, especially when law is not ethical

@user-yo9jo2fy5e

7 months ago

Yeah. Must say this to those hypocrite muslims

@Natt327

5 months ago

Grow up

@laylam4241

7 months ago (edited)

They have lived there 5 generations and still stick to their own beliefs, why just not go back to Korea? even South Korea? I can’t fathom how they justify themselves and their entitlement. These kids listen to parents blindly because they are not taught critical thinking. So weird to me.

@michellestratford9753

7 months ago

This was fascinating. It shows how prejudice exists everywhere,and certainly a world I've never heard of. Thank you!

@Ghost_Cats

8 months ago

he legit is like oh yeah when we go it's already planned for us and we have a tight schedule and can't go most places. Also him: yeah thats not the north korea WE see when we visit!!!

@Yu-suke-america

11 months ago

彼等が日本に住んでる理由？

祖国より安心安全で食事も美味しいから住んでるんだよ

祖国に住んでる家族や親族が90年台から00年初期にかけて情報をいっぱい教えてくれて移住するのを諦めた家族はいっぱいいると思う

複雑な問題がこの動画で更に複雑になりそう

@user-wx7pk4wj2x

11 months ago

この映像をみたほとんどの人が思う事

さっさと帰ればいいのになぜ帰らない？

@Andrew36597

8 months ago

This entire video, it felt like the elephant in the room that no one was mentioning was South Korea; these are Ethnic Koreans who resent being discriminated against by the Japanese and so feel a connection to their ancestral homeland, but there is a free democratic Korean nation that is easy to travel to and possibly even reasonable to immigrate to if they were so inclined that wouldn't cause such controversy or bad will towards them. Perhaps there is an unspoken reason why they feel a greater connection to North Korea, despite it's atrocious reputation, but it would have been interesting to hear their thoughts on it.

@user-qh3uh6kr7b

1 month ago

差別を論じる前に自分のことを客観的に考えてほしい

@gogoletsgodarling

9 months ago

This is fascinating to me because my father grew up near a Tokyo North Korean school in the 60s and had a bad impression of Koreans… but ended up marrying my mom, who is Korean. My Korean family is from the North but escaped to the South during the war.

@mikulitsi1819

11 months ago

What a great piece. This was very interesting to watch

@gosuhenke

8 months ago

Looks Good

@Y-pk6ki

10 months ago

As a Japanese, i feel l a little bit scared to see such a school really existing near our houses. They tend to complain about being abused or being faced with racism but for me we seem too generous… for those who really want to fit with our cultures, we can offer the same thing as we do to Japanese but if they don’t, there’s no need to support them isn’t it?

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@NDE108

8 months ago

You are right to feel the way that you do.

@kamiiwave

8 months ago

I'm not attacking, I'm just curious, I promise. stories like this made me give up from studying international relationships because I couldn't deal with the pain from empathy. I'm asking this as a gaijin who is trying to understand. how Japan could improve their quality of life and what they can do to make them being accepted by Japanese society? I was thinking a lot about, I'm sorry to say like that, the imperial who invaded Korea, and the horror made by those people from the past, and the interviewer saying they want a place to call home. how can both countries make peace? I've seen some South Korean opinions but I've never been answered by a Japanese. i would be really thankful if you could give me an insight about this issue.

@Y-pk6ki

8 months ago

@kamiiwave thank u for replying. I’m not specialized in this area but that’s my answer to you. I’d be grateful if it’d be helpful for your future study. First of all, I wanna make it clear that those schools are for North Korea ppl in Japan not for South Korea ppl. And what they’ve been taught there was almost a part of propaganda which contradicts facts and history. Also what North Korea have been doing against us are really scary ofc unacceptable. Nonetheless we support those schools financially so we don’t like those schools and their attitudes. If they should choose ordinary schools and be educated as well as other Japanese to fit in our society, we’d be more open to accepting them as well as other immigrants.

@luanvitor3418

7 months ago

@Y-pk6ki What does North Korea do for Korea? I live in Brazil on the other side of the world, I don't understand

@kosna

7 months ago

@luanvitor3418 absolutely nothing. Meetings between the two are few and far between. They both refuse to acknowledge the other as a country (both countries claim not to be the rulers of north or south Korea but of the Korean Peninsula as a whole) and operate entirely separately with different economies.

@user-fj7xi7tb3i

7 months ago

but they are born here in Japan right? We can all share the same neighbourhood despite different background.

@user-ln4pe4lg7o

3 months ago

@kamiiwave As hath Japanese, I relate to the difficulties being accepted when you're not 100% Japanese.

The history between Japan and Korea is deep and Japan did many awful things, however I think that as the past is important and never to be forgotten, playing a game of blaming each by using each others pasts is a pointless game with no winner.

I think respecting and forgiving each others past and look to the future is the best way of change and improvement.

I don't know about the older generation but everyone I know Loves and respects south Korea and there culture, It's not common hearing people saying they wish they where Korean. I think that there are positive changes. As to North koreans Japanese think that the dictatorship in north korea is a threat to democracy and freedom. pwople are scared that they will bomb Japan, Korea America and other nations in any given chance. As to north korean people we think they are poor brainwashed people with no rights or freedom. Tbh people don't know much about North korea.

@azurecliff8709

2 months ago

The Japanese earnestly desire that all Koreans in Japan return to the Korean peninsula.

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@Sopin_Fictitious_Railway

11 months ago (edited)

15:39

I am Japanese and attended a Japanese public primary school, a private junior and senior high school and a national university.

In my Japanese history class, I learnt that Koreans were massacred in the Great Kanto Earthquake of 1923.

If she was told by her friends that there was no massacre, it was simply the illiteracy of her friends.

In the past, there was an entrance exam question at a Japanese national university that could only be answered correctly if the student knew that Koreans were massacred in the Great Kanto Earthquake.

My point is that most Japanese people do not deny the crimes committed by the Japanese in the past.

Regarding the massacre of Koreans during the Great Kanto Earthquake, there are differences in the perception of the number of people massacred, but the fact that there was a massacre is accurate history and is written in the textbooks used in Japanese public schools.

The Japanese Government has never tried to hide it.

Rather, it actively teaches children, at least in Japanese public schools, that this event is a typical example of how, in times of sudden and extreme social turmoil such as earthquakes, false rumours that never happened are spread and, at worst, cause casualties.

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@n3gi_

11 months ago

What about Nanjing? Are you guys taught about that or not?

@hargydon

11 months ago (edited)

@n3gi_ tumbleweeds…

@jacobsladder827

10 months ago

Be careful what you learn in your history lessons. As a student of history in my late 60's I'm finding more and more the official stories do not tell the truths.

@yuki-tr1jt

10 months ago (edited)

lisamolala3588 　

あなた方もです。あなた方が日本人にどれだけのをしたのか学んでますか？

@dovuthang

10 months ago

lisamo lala how do you know there are so many? or you just say as you want?

@n3gi_

10 months ago

@user.piyopiyo Fair enough. Massive killing is an understatement to what actually happened like brutal torture methods or rapes but that would be too much graphic for kids to handle, so I understand. Appreciate the reply.

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@avian946

8 months ago

Lots of people answering questions with questions.

@lovendor

11 months ago

As an Eritrean, i understand them when they talk about their loyalty to their country. when they talk about how North Korea is just misunderstood, I am reminded of my own country, where many of the population in the larger cities think the same. Eritrea is similar in that you need travel visas to travel between cities, so mobility is limited, but you can freely see anything once the visa is granted, which is how I was disillusioned very quickly. I think their entire situation is sad and unfortunate. People underestimate how strong the need for belonging is.

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@user-tt2ei1db9s

11 months ago

Aiko Kawasaki is a real-non-embellished story of someone who escaped North Korea. We should all be listening to her instead of Yeonmi Park.

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@Panster7

2 months ago

Wild

@yuk1saito

11 months ago

If they feel so good about going back to North Korea for a trip, and feel that bad living in Japan, they should just all go back to North Korea and live in the beautiful country that they love.

@zotio9

6 months ago

すごい。この情報にまみれた世界であり得ないこと洗脳されちゃってんの。

@user-mm1iw3fs1n

10 months ago

マジでこんな施設に金出すなよ…

@wintermelon1795

11 months ago

So I don't know if the government's actions reducing subsidies are ethnic discrimination, it has to do with the Chongryon schools having a pro-North Korean curriculum. Obviously, Zainichi Koreans get ethnically discrimiated in Japan but I don't think this is an example of that.

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@jamesgoatcher

4 months ago

I remember watching a really fun Japanese movie twenty years ago called Go (2001, Isao Yukisada directed). I attempted to read the novel it was based on but I wasn't fluent enough for it to have an impact on me. I don't want to comment on this subject or video specifically, just want to share a fun piece of media for those interested in Japanese films addressing this topic.

@davidcook680

10 months ago

The interviewer in this was so good. This was amazingly done.

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@JL-ui6gx

10 months ago

More stories of people like Kawasaki Eiko need to be told, like What happened to them after they were deceived to North Korea and what took them to escape from there.

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@user-pw4mz5qe2h

4 months ago

So Sad and Heartbreaking story

@Tobi-oi3uf

11 months ago

Very interesting.. I wish the documentary was longer! <3 Cheers

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@uranus4511

11 months ago

At the North Korean school, alumni and principals have guided the abductions, and they are still on mission arrangements. It is abnormal that there is an anti-Japanese agent training school in Japan that does not teach the history of the school.

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@r9740

11 months ago

国家の方針に反する組織を支援するのは、どんな国でも難しいでしょう。お互い様

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@ficfab5252

6 months ago

You touched on some of them, racism and a longing for belonging, but haunting questions are left unasked: Where do the students live? How much life do they have outside the school? Do they stand out when they are out in society (after all, they change into NK clothes inside the school)? These are just a start and these are such interesting and revealing questions. How I wish you had asked some of them!

The guy said North Korean escapees are attracted by the outside world fabricated by capitalist TV bureaus, a natural follow up question to ask is how North Korean viewers access those TV programs. There are so many worthy follow up questions to ask.

Unfortunately, viewers are left achingly wanting...

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@FreelanceBibliography

8 months ago

Note: Kyoto is the cultural capital

@danopsteegh7684

11 months ago

There’s a NK school in my area. Every so often I’ll see their school bus and smile and wave at the students. Children deserve kindness no matter where they are from.

@rayjc1539

8 months ago

Soooo clean in japan unbelievable....oh my GOD love it.

@Cyberpunker1088

8 months ago

Crazy how stubborn these communities are.

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@FlushingsFinest1

6 months ago

If they support North Korea so much, and think its such a wonderful place - why not move back?!

@w_kwok

11 months ago

I'm baffled that the historian just justified North Korea's human rights violations by saying "Americans did it too"

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@scott9334

5 months ago

As a Korean, it’s interesting to see these schools still exist when even the kids and teachers speak Korean with a heavy Japanese accent.

This isn’t really political anymore but more about trying to preserve an identity that is slipping away… especially as so many ethnic Koreans can basically just change their legal names and assimilate into Japanese society literally overnight.

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@Friday_The_Thirteenth

5 days ago

Off topic but I saw stray kids on the billboard, just to bring light to a bleak time, I love stray kids!!!

@chosen_one1602

11 months ago

Why don't they just go to N. Korea? It's only a 2 hour flight. What is really going on?

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@ymyr1

10 months ago (edited)

I would propose a meeting with the elderly lady who eventually managed to escape North Korea with the youngsters who seem to support the North Korean ideology that much.

Though the elderly lady or all of them might not want to take part in such a meeting.

And yes, as several people have already pointed it out in the comment section, it was a bit strange for me to hear the young adults take the interview in fluent Japanese. Why not to speak in Korean? (like the female students of the school did)

Also, if one is so much in awe of North Korea, one can go there to live permanently .. Visiting there temporarily in a pre-organized tour is quite a different matter.

Anyway, the documentary is shedding light on a very complex issue with still very relevant and acute wounds.

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@kaminari6255

7 months ago

I think they only hired a Japanese interpreter for this documentary, that’s why all the interviewers were encouraged to speak Japanese.

@ymyr1

6 months ago

@kaminari6255 I see, could be.

If yes, then it might not have been a very good strategy chosen by the director.

They would have sounded more authentic in their own native tongue, especially since the young interviewees were singing praises of North Korea.

@yudhoyono88

6 months ago

6:56 Is there anyone who knows the tittle of this song, please?

@legionofyuri

6 months ago

Gotta hand it to Japan for their dedication to democratic ideals (so far). These schools and the people who run and fund them could be argued as potential foreign subversives in society, but so far, no major crackdown has been brought down on them.

@user-sk3ep2iz6i

11 months ago

では、北朝鮮に帰って人生を過ごしたら？危険だからでしょ？違うの？

@Ythh1848

11 months ago

This is what a spy farm looks like.

@mortalic2835

4 months ago

can anyone tell me ,what the name of the outro music is pls?

@LALoft

8 months ago (edited)

Many Japanese have Korean ancestry. Korea is geographically very close to Japan. They have some island borders as close as 32 miles from each other.

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@upthedown1

11 months ago

If you are asking for help from another country and will live in their country then follow their rules, learn the language and respect the culture or leave. Simple as that.

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@kimberlygriffin6285

11 months ago

Not gonna lie, I laughed when thay guy was like "wait a minute" in the restaurant and just went out to fight with that drunk man.

@HH-jk8fs

5 months ago (edited)

Can’t believe someone is getting happy about going a hell like place

@AK-ky3ou

7 months ago

Incredible

@orion4522

10 months ago

These North Korean students who idolize North Korea have merged their identity with beliefs and as stated before, as someone who has heritage from 2 countries that has a long (continuing) history of racism which leads to the violation of human rights on numerous levels, these North Korean people have to learn to accept who they are and the truth of their country. Being native to a country does not mean being ignorant about the issues that are happening within it, and disagreeing with a country’s government doesn’t make them any less Korean.

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@dogitosama

10 months ago

The first tempered comment I see. Not much like, not extreme enough it seems.

@MUZUKUN-YT

9 months ago (edited)

I really liked this response. However, I don't feel that they don't want to go back because it's a good country to them, but I feel it's to show others how North Korea isn't as bad as the media wants it to be. These students, teacher and facilities are up against misinformation about North Korea and they are willing to correct them. The biggest problem I have with this video is the fact that each time these people speak up for North Korea, it seems like they're cutting up vital information on this country that is important to know about them.

@rmf9567

8 months ago

Japan and the United States are very close. North Korea in Japan, or an entirely different situation

@deezeed2817

6 months ago

The Japanese have learnt nothing from their military aggression and imperialism. These schools are a reminder of Japan's grave crimes against humanity and even on their own people which led to the tragic nuclear attacks, The Japanese regime should neve be allowed to forget.

@user-pn6km6vq2p

6 months ago (edited)

@MUZUKUN-YT i kinda agree with you on how students and teachers are going against the misinformation but realistically, as a japanese person whenever i get a notification about how North Korea shot a missile towards japan i always get scared for my family’s life. When i lived in japan i was in class and i remember my teacher told us class that we will have “missile drill” basically a drill where if North Korea shot a missile to our city, us students have to go under the desk and hide. It’s not only one or two time thing, they shoot missile towards Japan almost every month. North Korea had kidnapped a lot of Japanese people and government are still trying to get them back to japan. Some of those people had gotten kidnapped for over 20 years ago and yet they haven’t got to come back to their home. As long as these things are going on, people in japan will not be able to trust North Koreans so easily, they don’t know maybe they are one of the tool that north Korean government are using to kidnap Japanese or something. I get that they don’t want to get discriminated but us Japanese are also scared. (I hope you get what I’m trying to say English is my second language so sometimes it sounds so bad )

@lico2076

11 months ago

I think they should go and live in NK if they find it so perfect. I bet the Japanese government would not hold them by force as happens on the other country.

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@jessramirez5721

2 weeks ago

Why aren’t these students and teachers jumping at the chance to move to North Korea if it is so great? I don’t understand.

@DerClouder

8 months ago

History has proven that North and South can work together on a certain scale, and the schools could become another symbol of Korean co-operation. And no, i'm not a fan of North Korean regime, but a divide as big as Korea has takes baby steps, compromises and understanding from both sides to heal.

@jx5k

11 months ago

I'm wondering if North Korea would allow a community of Japanese who warship Hideki Tojo to be in their country.

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@user-pi1dc8ku9g

11 months ago (edited)

People from the Korean Peninsula, one of the areas separated from Japan in 1952, are called Koreans living in Japan. Under Japanese law, they are the same as foreigners from other countries and have no right to vote because they are foreigners and are not Japanese citizens. This is the same in countries other than Japan, and it complies with international law and Japanese law, so it is not discrimination. In addition, North Korea is not only a security threat to Japan, but schools for North Koreans living in Japan are not subject to the Japanese School Education Law, so it is only natural that they cannot receive educational assistance. Even if you are a foreigner living in Japan, children who attend regular public schools have the same rights as Japanese.

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@guptacorp

6 months ago

The million dollar question is IF those people are ill-treated in Japan, and IF they feel so much love and loyalty for N. Korea, then WHY do they still live in Japan? Why not travel back to N. Korea permanently where they feel joy and to immerse themselves in the culture? Do they not hear and acknowledge the harsh reality of testimonies of Koreans who escaped N. Korea to Japan and have loved ones who were murdered there? It is unclear what world they live in if they are unable to embrace the tough reality. What is more insane is they visit N. Korea and see what life is like, and yet most of them were born and live in Japan. While they may experience some hostilities, at least they were born into FREEDOM. How can they not appreciate the difference between FREEDOM and cruel slavery and arbitrary torture? It makes a bit of sense for Japanese to fear Koreans born and living in Japan who still feel loyal to N. Korea, who do not see the wrong doing committed in N. Korea. If they identified more with South Korea instead, then that may pose less of an issue. This situation is both disturbing and perplexing for many reasons. Both sides have committed wrong doing in the past, but in N. Korea today, human rights violations continue, more so than any other place in the Free world. Yet these people are happy to live in their bubble?

@irisbelle8507

7 months ago

Why don't that art teacher and the rest like him go back to north korea for good?

@Bite0fBread

11 months ago

The Quality of School they enjoy in Japan, are most probably reserved and experience only by higher up(politically connected) families in north korea.

I wonder why Japan allowed a North Korean school to exist.. Korean School which focuses on culture and language is fine, but an actual North Korean School that literally have a curriculum that is clearly have a goal of brain washing children to worship the North Korean KIM family.

If these Koreans just wants to have somewhere to belong to, there is Mindan(South Korea) Association which 65% of Koreans in Japan are a part of.

@user-ur5we9de1y

11 months ago

可哀想

早く北の楽園に帰してあげて

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@ratobiajin

7 months ago

Paldies!

@juntan157

2 months ago

One question to them : Why they still stay in Japan, if they think North Korea is so good ??

@napeekapunpimtongnara9111

10 months ago

It's so strange and different in thought that I'm confused and very surprised. I don't really understand what's going on here, do those who live have freedom? And why did you choose to stay here? And what is their future? A community like this really exists. I could really feel some tension. Thank you for such a great documentary.

@ashutoshgupta9410

11 months ago

So to sum up these north Koreans are living in Japan and complaining about the issues of the country and don't want to go back to thier own homeland because of poor living standards. What they don't get is if you are staying in a foreign country you have to live by thier customs.

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@combat.wombat

3 weeks ago

Entire video and they never asked them why they emulate North Korea instead of South Korea, or a pre-split Korea. Makes this whole video kind of as waste when they don't even ask the most obvious and likely most illuminating question.

@rashadb954

7 months ago

The whataboutism goes hard at 20:44. What a way to dodge the question.

@user-nj4hl2od6r

11 months ago

I’m Japanese and I hope Zainichi Korean students go to Korean school will be protected their rights. However they should ban any connections to DPRK and DPRK’s community for protecting their rights. They must tell people in Japan “We never support to North Korea again.”, if they want to be recognized by Japanese government. Japanese people are always threatened by the north nuclear weapons. Why do we need to help the people support the country threaten us? Japanese government also helps Korean school established by the community of South Korean immigrants. Not all Japanese are racists. Think about what is the most important things to you, please.

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@masterkent1

11 months ago (edited)

I remember there was a really old japanese video from the 80s where it delved into the suspiciousness of the chongryon when most of the controversies surrounding it was hazy and unconfirmed. People were uncomfortable with the school especially because of the kidnappings and illegal activities done by North korean spies and chongryon was also known as a haven for spies.

@gary193

3 months ago

One of the more odd late night rabbit holes I’ve went down.

@lissahernandez5308

7 months ago

Is this group similar to the chosen Soren?

@mariomene2051

8 months ago

5:30 Outsiders will always be outsiders in Japan--how much more so if they stay together as a group and preserve their group identity? This is not an exceptional or conspicuous occurrence.

@rosenia5409

6 months ago

I’m so glad that a lot of people here see it for what NK truly is. People are suffering there. Thank you for understanding the real truth!

@premierlitnant1570

8 months ago (edited)

We are living in the world where we have assess to everything educational and news worthy information and yet these people are so ignorant that they don't read and look at the horrors of what the North Korean regime does. Its so weird.

@copper_wire

7 months ago

Is there an alternative for Korean diaspora in Japan? Are there any schools or organizations backed by the South Korean government? That was missing form this report, and if there are indded none, then it's not surprising that the people looking to affirm their national identity are pushed into the arms of Pyongyang.

@user-en5vg2bd4r

11 months ago

女性や子供を利用して被害者の振りをするのは彼らの伝統的な手法だよな。半世紀以上も同じことを繰り返す変わらない人達

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@wallace6228

11 months ago

長崎と広島も

@poniso9142

11 months ago

@wallace6228

i am Japanese but

i don't understand why you bring up "Hiroshima" and "Nagasaki" here.

@Lilyandmoomin

5 months ago

Racism in any country should be stopped people educated.

The North Korean children born in Japan are wearing rose tinted glasses. If it’s so wonderful in North Korea why haven’t the moved there.

@cn-xp5lr

6 months ago

이해할 수 없는 것 두 가지

1 어떻게 일본에 살면서 저렇게 세뇌될 수가 있지?

2. 일본 정부는 저걸 왜 허가해준거?

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@blackrose_111

11 months ago (edited)

My ancestors have a proverb " DIMANA BUMI DIPIJAK DISITU LANGIT DIJUNJUNG" means " Be always Thankful and Grateful to the land where your foot stand with a sky above you".

@hailstar007

5 months ago

This could be perfect ingredients to create those who yarn their home country (or even radicalisation) because they don't really know what it's like to live there (visiting is not living), free access to social media (inc. disinformation), and being discriminated by local community.

@longhairdontcare122

7 months ago

I mean the certainly not yakuza Japanese guys had good point. Not for violent crimes but for removing voting rights until they acknowledge they've not in NK.

@user-cr1ob6df8g

11 months ago

ユンギさんは勘違いしているようですね。日本国内での立場を理解すべきです。朝鮮学校で教育を受けるということは、日本の教育を受けるということではありません。だから無償化されないのは当然のことであり、実現性の低いことです。北朝鮮の教育を受けたければ、その学校に在籍するのは自由ですが、それを日本に求めるのは違うと思います。北朝鮮を愛すのであれば、北朝鮮で教育を受けたらいいのではないでしょうか。何か理由があって北朝鮮には行けないんですよね。ご両親も望んで朝鮮学校に入れているというのに。私は大学で教育について学び、教育実習を経験し学校教員を目指しています。日本には教育を保障する公立学校があり、外国人の子どもたちも多く在籍しています。現在、その子どもたちにとって、自分自身のルーツを知ることが大切とされるので、一人一人の教育的ニーズに合わせた教育を受ける動きが広がっています。日本の公教育は無償化されて、アフタースクールとして朝鮮学校で民族教育を受ければいいのではないでしょうか。無償化は不可能ですが…。いくら訴えても無駄なことだと思います。

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@9f238

4 months ago

I am Japanese, but there are many Korean schools in Japan that instill education in worshiping North Korean leaders and implant anti-Japanese sentiments. Graduates from these schools often enter the media and television industry, influencing and controlling information in Japan. This system is said to have been established by the post-war U.S. government, intending to weaken Japan. Japanese media was dismantled, and individuals like ethnic Koreans in Japan were deliberately placed in the newspaper, radio, and television industries by the U.S. government. This comment might be deleted, but this issue is deeply rooted and complex, deserving more discussion. Current Japan appears to be in a state akin to being eaten away by internal parasites, with the true mastermind not being North Korea.

@jonathanpitcher5229

5 months ago

It's amazing how people can really believe anything with little evidence

@saltag

11 months ago

13:00 Not just the Chongryeon. The Japanese government was actively supporting the Chongryeon in their efforts as a means to get rid of what they perceived to be an unwanted population now that the empire had collapsed. The Japanese government in fact was heavily involved in the negotiations with NK to make sure that NK took as many people as possible, even though they had an understanding of the situation in NK but chose to keep it to themselves. For those more interested please read Tessa Morris-Suzuki's brilliant "Exodus to North Korea: Shadows from Japan's Cold War."

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@MarjorieBurns-gu9tf

4 months ago

It just seems if you love North Korea, and support the regime, live there. Why stay in Japan?

@apolloniasakae4551

5 months ago

I worked 6 1/2 yrs for a comany and the owners were all from North Korea. I have nothing but nice things to say, they treated me with respect, kindness and were very warm and welcoming, Everyone were well mannered and polite, very exepting of me even if I am a foreigner. A great experience i will never forget. I moved city but In comparison, a Japanese company that I worked for were not nice, I felt used and often bullied. Now I work for myself.

@user-xf9mj5xn1j

11 months ago (edited)

One of my university friend is from other Korean school in east Japan, and he doesn't seems to be into such ideology so much. I think there are big differences according to areas, and generations. Also, there are two nationalities of Zainichi(in-Japan) Koreans, one is South Korean, and the other is Chōsen-seki (朝鮮籍, "Korean domicile") (I think ppl in this video have this) which is not equal to North Korean, and this inherits the status of Korean people under the colonial era when Korea weren't divided yet. Now Chōsen-seki ppl can choose to have South Korean nationality.

@_kotarou4229

11 months ago

As a Japanese, I'm very sad for them. If I could, I donate them to go back to their country.

Poor kids. They've never experienced having their beautiful life in North Korea.

So please don't do abduction and spy in Japan.

We know the man who graduated from the school was arrested for espionage activities illegally investigating Japanese citizens.

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@josh4897

11 months ago

Did you really just say the phrase: “beautiful life in North Korea”?

@WRXMK

11 months ago

@josh4897 Sarcasm...

@n3gi_

11 months ago

Damn, I love your sarcasm.

@youtubeaccount5738

10 months ago (edited)

Pffffffffft Beautiful life? Lmfao

@lllllllllllllllll905

10 months ago

japanese ppl worship america but are harsh towards south korean citizens in their country lol

@oc-ek3mlpguft

9 months ago

netouyo www

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@user-nx8zq2pe5m

5 months ago

I’m a Japanese high school student. I’ve never knew there’s a school for Korean in Kyoto.I was bit surprised they have an portrait of two important people in every classroom. It seems like North Korean school when I saw that. The man don’t make us misunderstand to see them, but still, it’s typical bias or image we have for North Korea nowadays. As other Japanese people mentioned, we’ve heard about North Korea’s kidnapping and missile thing through the tv program as always. I feel frustrated since the government don’t make any efforts to solve the kidnapping.

Among young teenagers, Korean culture such as K-pop or makeup go viral lately. I’m the big fun of K-pop girls groups. However, I guess the bias for Korean people still exists especially for elderly people.

@Der_Kleine_Mann

7 months ago

Just ask them: Who wants to stay and who wants to go. And then send all the ones who are unwilling to integrate into Japanese society to N.K., and the ones who choose to stay in Japan have to be integrated into Japanese society.

It's that easy folks.

@lemonlam1880

7 months ago

anyone know school name ?

@ahmadsamir1031

11 months ago

The interviewer never ask the golden question; will you ever move to korea?

@godofchaoskhorne5043

9 months ago

What I find strange is that after all this time, with the modern internet and all the tensions between DPRK and Japan they'd still feel any kinship to the North over the South. That is the real surprise here. These people could be a bridge between South Korea and Japan instead they are indoctrinated into the ideology of the Kim's

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@culture88

8 months ago

Do you think the feelings of "kinship" (as you put it) that those ethnic Koreans in Japan have with N. Korea, may have something to do with the fact that N. Korea and not S. Korea has provided funding so that they may enjoy a schooling environment/life without racial antagonism?

@kahnadah

7 months ago

@godofchaoskhorne5043 You're not a Turk. You were born in the Netherlands. You are Dutch. You have a Turkish ancestry, but you are not a Turk. That is where all of your problems arise from. If people could simply accept these facts the world would be a much better place. As long as we see ourselves as 'the other', we'll never truly fit in. And fitting in doesn't mean giving up traditions your parents cherish, it means blending them in with your homeland. The Netherlands.

@godofchaoskhorne5043

7 months ago (edited)

@kahnadah wtf are you on about. I'm ethnically 100% Turk. It doesn't really matter where I'm born I'll always remain a Turk.

I'm a Dutch Turk sure, but I'm not "not a Turk". Keep your ignorance to yourself

Not to mention. Me being a Turk isn't the issue. The issue is people the people that think it's not ok for me to be a Turk. Or that believe you vant be both Dutch and also a Turk at the same time

@MrMsLisa

5 months ago (edited)

I also thought about how no one mentioned South Korea, it would have been interesting to hear their thoughts about it.

@hentype

5 months ago

@kahnadah true. People can't be larping like they're the same as the ones in the homeland when they grew up differently, under different rules and values, in a different land.

@user-rw3bk6wp4m

3 months ago (edited)

@kahnadah

Ethnicity and nationallity are different thing. He is Dutch but at the same time he has identity of Turk. He can celebrate Turk customs or Turk hollidays with his family, while respecting the values of Dutch people.

@SLHA

2 months ago

I once had the chance to participate in Chōsen-Gakko event, those felt like South Korea 40-50 years ago.

@imrannazir6931

11 months ago (edited)

Please do a piece on the Nigerian gangsters in Tokyo. Anyone who has lived there will know what I'm talking about.

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@electrofonickitty823

11 months ago

My great aunt is South Korean and my great uncle is American and they see this as a sad story. I know my great aunt doesn't see herself as strictly Southern Korean and she believes there has to be a peaceful resolution, but she really didn't agree with the North Korea at all. Her children went to a Japanese school and she wants her children and grandchildren to learn Japanese, English and Korean.

@dianavaneck3957

11 months ago

Amazing documentary. It’s important to ask questions people don’t become defensive to for real critical thought though. I would never ask any one in conspiracy about the UN or humanitarian atrocities. It’s to wide and they have been trained to see that as evil questions. It’s not a matter of capitalism and that’s all they see. Its important to instead use people’s real life experiences and photos of the camps,dangers and deaths of NK. Asking things like have you talked to some one who has escaped and actually lived outside of government tours? What do you think about people being sent to camps who have access to internet like (insert name) etc. This was sad to see but really insightful.

@kimweonill

9 months ago

It's very weird that as a South Korean I get to see these stories of people living in Japan who use the same language and share the same history as me by not Korean broadcasting channels but English-speaking journalists.

@ThalesWell

7 months ago

If you resent your oppressor enough, you will side with their opponent, and that opponent will welcome you.

@oriens70

11 months ago

Very interesting report. The Korean woman says 'I felt relieved in Pyongyang but in Japan, we have been treated like foreigners'. So why did you come back to Japan and now enjoy Korean BBQ while your 'relieved' country's people are starving? Why do you think Japan has to give you the same eligibilities as Japanese nationalities when you treat Japan as your 'enemy'? Nonsense.

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@e_n964

10 months ago

I put an English translation at the bottom of this comment (Google translation)

日本はこの施設を学校として認可していない。ただ、そこに"施設"としてあるだけ。ここを卒業しても卒業後の資格を得て日本お代額などに入学するのは難しい。国交が無い且つ拉致問題、ミサイル問題が解決していないので他の認可されている学校と同様の扱いを受けるのは難しい。朝鮮学校とは別にインターナショナルスクールは認可されているところもある。そもそも日本の文科省が示した基準を守っていない教育をする機関は日本国外に学校を作れば良いし、そのような機関に行きたい人は朝鮮に行けば良いのでは？？（私は暴言暴力はいかなる環境、いかなる人に対しても行ってはいけないと思っており、それを正当化するためのコメントではありません）

Japan does not approve this facility as a school. However, it is only there as a "facility". Even after graduating from this school, it is difficult to obtain qualifications after graduation and enter a Japanese school. Since there is no diplomatic relations and the abduction issue and missile issue have not been resolved, it is difficult to receive the same treatment as other authorized schools. Some international schools are licensed separately from Korean schools. In the first place, educational institutions that do not comply with the standards set by the Japanese Ministry of Education should build schools outside of Japan, and people who want to go to such institutions should go to Korea. ? (I believe that verbal violence should not be done in any environment or against any person, and this is not a comment to justify it.

@aan2931

1 month ago

Y'all should change your citizenship to NK if you want it so badly Let's see if you can speak freely like this in Japan

@llllllllllIllllllI

11 months ago

일본 착하네.. 우리나라라면 국가보안법 위반으로 처벌후에 추방했음.

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@musakosumusakosu

11 months ago

は？

@seoeunyi3424

10 months ago

@musakosumusakosu 翻訳すると「日本は優しいね、、韓国だったら国家保安法違反で処罰して追い出してたよ「です。日本がもっといい対策してほしいという意味！

@tsunax1400

5 months ago

I think people are missing the point about the Chongryon. A lot of their attitude against Japan and towards North Korea stems from identity issues. It happens a lot when you're a minority, and especially one which is heavily discriminated against. The bitterness and hatred from being placed under colonial rule and shipped away from home only to be further discriminated isn't something that people just forget. They hold grudges, and those grudges are picked up by children who learn from their parents. Even if the parents don't directly tell them that Japanese are bad, they still learn from their attitude. And the problem is that the discrimination isn't something from the distant past, but something that a lot of the people in the video experienced. The art teacher seemed to be traumatised from the beating he took as a kid and wasn't able to resolve it, which led to his misplaced anger against the Japanese. The students were harassed by the far right guys, who were so extreme that one of them even tried going after the reporter. While Japan has every right to cut off funding and be mad at NK for firing missiles, when you already see them as the bad guy and the oppressor it's easy to mistake these actions as discriminatory and aggressive. Even when you see that NK is bad, you can't just agree with it because then what do you have left of your own identity? At that point the country you're in (supposedly) hates you and you have nowhere else to go, no ally. That's hard for people to accept.

It sucks but unfortunately for their own mental health and self-esteem, they have no choice but to see NK as 'good' and Japan as 'bad'. The only way this can change is kindness. If the Japanese are nice to them and accepting of them, they can see that they have a place to belong in Japan and wouldn't need to use NK as a crutch anymore. The problem is when you have far right groups like the one in the video that turn them into victims and treat them like outsiders

@sh723

9 months ago

Unfortunately, Japan is a country that has no spy prevention law and is violated by a peace blur.

As a Japanese, I feel sorry for him.

I feel embarrassed that the Chongryon and Chosun Gakko, which were involved in the abduction of Japanese, remain in Japan, even though some of my Japanese colleagues were abducted and only some of them have returned.

@shinchan0712

7 months ago

They do not go to North Korea because it is easier for them to continue crying and the Japanese may continue to support them. It is his idiosyncrasy to continue crying and claiming.

@lkl3210

8 months ago

That "foreigners get out" dude really seems taken out of japanese media, anime, manga, movie what have you

@holeeshi9959

9 months ago (edited)

I'm genuinely surprised at how tolerant of Japan to even allow for them to exist and even receive government subsidies from Japan, even U.S. with 1st amendment, would absolutely cut off all public funding and certifications for schools blatantly support an enemy regime. I wonder how does South Koreans live in Japan feel about this, no way they won't be protesting this. and half of those Zainichi are born in Japan from people who arrived from BEFORE Korea was divided, they can identify with either Korea if they wish, and if it were up to anyone who isn't being paid off by the North Korean government, it would be the South.

@x.i_a

11 months ago (edited)

かなり恐怖を感じた、、

@user-vh3ot5sm6y

5 months ago

I don't think that hate should be directed at these people, however, some of them feel like these schools should be funded by the Japanese Government, which is extremely delusional.

They're lucky that these ideals are allowed to be taught in Japan at all.

@heatherracho666

7 months ago

They should have went back to South Korea or they should have just simulated into the culture like everybody else who moves to a foreign country or in their case is kidnapped The country should definitely give them rights and citizenship especially if they're born there. I don't think that they should be having separate education especially not from North Korea It's only causing problems and they're not learning anything worth learning.

@user-up1eu5yz5k

11 months ago

義務や責任は負わないのに、権利を主張する外国人が日本に多すぎるんだよね、

みんながみんなじゃないし、システムの問題かもしれないんだけど。

でもその権利を得れないと必ず「差別だ」と言う。正直もうどうすればいいか分からないし、彼らとは一生平行線上

@itsnoneofyourbusiness0

8 months ago

I think even in those trips to North Korea they weren’t seeing the real Korea because people in the capital are very rich and plus I just don’t believe North Korea would let teenagers in their country and would show them what it’s really like

@toddvandagrifft84

8 months ago

For those who have never been to Japan, when he says they (Koreans in Japan) are never accepted and are seen as outsiders, it's much worse than that. Even half Japanese people, who grew up in the country, are told they will never be Japanese. The racism, although usually non-violent, is widespread throughout the country from my experience living there.

@user-kf8rq7fl1k

9 months ago

I share the same background, having attended both Korean and Japanese schools. I can understand the difficult situations that those who went to Korean schools describe, such as facing discrimination due to racism. Korean schools play a significant role in these aspects. I believe the issue lies in the deep relationship Korean schools maintain with North Korea's politics to seemingly protect their identity. In the video, the interviewer poses questions about nuclear and economic sanctions imposed on North Korea, but those who graduate from Korean schools never criticize North Korea. They insist they're not brainwashed, yet it's evident that their thinking differs from the majority. This seems normal, considering they have been educated in North Korea's style for over ten years, thereby lacking exposure to other perspectives.

I hope the Japanese and Koreans make an effort to build good relationships, not repeat past mistakes, and refrain from blaming past tragedies.

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@raymk

7 months ago

Humans think using categories.

We see an individual as a part of a group, rather than separating the humanity of the person and their beliefs.

I recall an awful case about a child who was sexually abused. After being saved, it's found out that the child had a phobia of the color purple because of the association with the color of the condom of the abuser.

Purple itself is not evil, but the damned act that is connected with the color is evil.

The entire Japan is not evil, only some people associated with Japan are evil. The same thing applies to North Korea, or any race or political parties.

@karyoson-rs8ir

11 months ago

差別されてる居心地悪いと思うなら自分の国に帰るべき、

郷にも従えない人間が何処の他国にも住める訳無いだろう、

差別されてる？自分は？どうなの？

@tvfan14

8 months ago

12:20 What would be so bad about learning the history Japan wants you to learn? You live in Japan. You are much freer because you live in Japan, you eat and live far better because you live in Japan.

@parowan2905

8 months ago

They are not distinguishable from Japanese or North Koreans when seen by foreigners. For example, no one would suspect them of pretending to be Japanese and saying things to undermine Japan

@sisyphus_strives5463

11 months ago (edited)

It always stuns me how effectively you can strip someone of their rationality simply by inundating them with such ideas and terrible experiences during their development.

@yunhuilv7004

1 month ago

Japan also denies the massacre in Nanjing so as toward the Koreans. Portrait themselves as humble and polite people.

@jackyun594

7 months ago

I am a korean who came from seoul, I don't feel any kind of diccrimnation in this country, I don't agree what they feel in this country.

I can say this they are just doing freely what they want under Japanese rule.

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@rayhem

11 months ago (edited)

i dont think there's anything wrong with a korean school in japan. its important to connect to your heritage and non-japanese face great ostracism in japan.

but NO school should teach blind nationalism for a country. to teach about a country but fail to criticize any aspect of it, means its nothing more than propoganda. japanese schools have a similar problem of repressing the horrors of its history. and my own country of the united states also promotes mindless patriotism, represses history, and encourages us to celebrate horrible historical figures from a young age. many americans and brits will look in horror at the kim family on the wall but not realize their own education glorified equally deplorable figures.

i see this episode as a lesson that applies to all places in the world: we need to stop worshiping governments, politicians, and regimes. we need to talk about everything in a country's present and past, from beautiful culture to horrible genocide. we must give students the TRUTH and let them interpret that information for themselves. the world will be a better place when we raise critical thinkers instead of blind followers

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@WasabiDreams

11 months ago

i couldnt agree more with your comment

@user-vf7cn3oy8g

11 months ago

@gu9yenk I agree with you.

@itsrye8001

11 months ago

agreed. "you be the seeker of your own truth".

@muhammadmirza4547

11 months ago

Absolutely agree with you

@alannevin2490

11 months ago

Very well said.

@cloverleaf3996

11 months ago

I couldnt agree more

@koweeaboo

11 months ago

the perfect comment.

@whalenj771jw

11 months ago

Idk where you were taught in the states, but where I was taught, we weren't taught "repressed history" it was pretty clear what were the darkest times in our history and what wasn't. My state even goes into great detail about the trail of tears. We don't celebrate figures that were obviously horrible for factual reasons. Idk who you were taught to celebrate. But I agree with you, students should be taught the truth, good bad and ugly. If we don't teach them the latter two, we are doomed to repeat past mistakes.

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@mskiara18

5 months ago

The difference between the Koreans living in Japan and North Korea is vast: the Korean citizens have access to liberties the North Koreans do not (food being one of them). I am sure traveling, the internet and vehicles is another. The fact that many chose to blindly defend North Korea and the Kim regime despite the plethora of evidence why they shouldn't is terrifying.

@gam4938

4 months ago

The craziest part is that I saw them protesting while in Kyoto but it hasn’t clicked until today

@xanderrednaxx

11 months ago

It's kinda like living in one's house and still supporting it's enemy but crying out loud for the house owner not caring for them

@520qwerty025

10 months ago

I hope Yonggi's wounds heal and may he find the strength to let go (of history) and move on with love in his heart.

@111Marc.o

11 months ago

when they say they never had a chance to learn in their own language while most of peoples didn’t at the time even know how to write and read in their own languages. Not only that but their ancestors chose to come to japan knowing that. don’t even live in japan then, if you have so much to say. you can always go back if it’s really what you want. it’s so absurd.

@gaminggazonk

5 months ago

As a SKorean this is the most bizarre thing I’ve ever seen and heard… totally wtf….

@Nocturne989

6 months ago

I'm always shocked how they can just only see it I'm guided tours, never being able to actual explore it like literally any other major country on earth, and act like what they're being shown is just 100% real

@flor6109

7 months ago

No entiendo, cómo estás personas no ven que Corea del Sur también comparte la misma cultura y tradiciones. Y sobretodo es una democracia no así Corea del Norte. Ellos parecen abducidos 16:43 cómo esta chica.

@user-ox7jt8bo7h

11 months ago (edited)

そんなに日本が嫌で北朝鮮がいいと言うなら帰ったらいいのに、単純な疑問として何で帰んないの？

別に誰も引き止めないと思うよ

少なくとも自分の意思でいるなら不満に思うだけならまだしも、日本人批判してカメラの前で被害者ヅラするのやめたら？

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@kurryjb_ib988

11 months ago

It is something to be acknowledged that Japan did do something horrendous in the past but it is quite weird how they still blame Japan’s occupation is the reason their country is not developing while South Korea’s economy is flourishing and SEA is growing to be one of the biggest market in the world.

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@dtpbg25

11 months ago

まじで頭がいかれた人達だわ笑頼むから帰国してくれ

@AnimeManhwa

7 months ago

What is "True freedom" .... Nobody really knows because some of us hide in our prison to avoid seeing the real world. We all have a different perspective of freedom

@NgwekyaiPhyu

7 months ago

8:9:2023(6:12)

The Dahma. the litreature and the knowledge are known very well by the living being

@kawaiinails

11 months ago

He should go live there if he thinks the defectors are lying

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@user-qo9bm3bi1o

6 months ago

Then, why don't they just move to north korea and just live in there?

@jjchopper2006

11 months ago

国へお帰り

@Infindox

7 months ago

That performer girl is probably treated like one of the "privileged few" when she goes there, and she doesnt see what the rest of the country has to go through.

@user-gs7ev5hk3v

11 months ago

融和する気持ちがない彼らを誰も尊敬しない。

@ConcreteAngelx3

8 months ago

18:20 his face when she suggests he visits North Korea with her

@LaLovelyJourney

8 months ago

This is literally just like the groups in the us that constantly talk about how bad it is, like why don't you just leave and go to whatever country you're from that you think is so much better lol??

@chsyrp2437

11 months ago

可哀相に。全てはこの子達のコミュニティの大人のせい。

子供達の未来を本気で考えられない親なんか捨ててしまいな

@kingdaniel4756

11 months ago (edited)

22:24

He didn't understand at all.

You cannot blame Japan for being harsh against North Koreans because the tensions arises between these countries.

If they can't stand the heat of Japanese people, then they must better depart from the Land of Japan.

They can move to China or South Korea.

@carinneduquenne

7 months ago

I ce heard it s not easy to live in Japan as a Korean but they have to go on a vacation in North Korea to make them realize how absurd their belief is

@flor6109

7 months ago

Entiendo que por cuestiones históricas haya en Japón coreanos. Pero, que existan centros educativos vinculados con el régimen dictatorial de Corea del Norte eso no tiene sentido. Además, estás personas vinculadas a estos colegios están muy arraigadas a la cultura norcoreana, cuando Corea del Sur también tiene la misma cultura y tradiciones.

@kortni_animations

7 months ago

There's too much information out there today for people to NOT know that it's bad in the north. If they go today, then they never could have been saved anyway. Let them.

@mikedrumm1669

8 months ago

Whenever they are asked about humans rights abuse they never answer it. All they say is well what about this what about that.

@lillianafox

7 months ago

They should put the anger into SAVING the kids not trying to save their "playground" or whatever.... and some of these kids are half Japanese

@amadeosendiulo2137

6 months ago

0:11 I know that song...

@Multi2794

3 months ago

interesting

@user-zw7mh6iv8p

11 months ago

I’m Korean. If they like NK so much, why do they remain in Japan?

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@anamei9

7 months ago

Bruh, imagine being an incoming JET (English teaching assistant) and finding out this is your placement

@DottorHealer

11 months ago

20:46 you know they know when instead of answering directly they go on the "what about" route

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@dougr8646

5 months ago

This makes me nostalgic for yakuza. Is that weird?

@ss-ls7qy

7 months ago

18:21この表情

@ChevyS10Blazer

7 months ago

That should be illegal

@PajuBaek

11 months ago

Irony: Koreans in Japan actually came from South Korea. None of them technically are from North Korea or the Northern part of Korea. The family came from South Korea, not from North. After the Korean War South Korea was very poor, whereas North Korea was richer than South Korea. North Korea was able to help Koreans in Japan.

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@n.a.8275

9 months ago

If they feel so alienated in Japan and think that NK is a good country, why not go back and live in NK permanently?

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