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Who?

On what grounds do people consider someone to be Korean or Zainichi for that matter? I believe a lot of Zainichi are mixed blood and many more don't receive any formal Korean education or even care. Do you then call any human being born in Japan with some sort of Korean ancestry-- a Zainichi? I'd say the real Zainichi gives a $hit, the real ones went to Korean school in Japan, the real ones never forget and the real ones reveals it.

I think you should be asking that same question to the Japanese.

They (Japanese netizens) "outed" him as a third generation Korean. As if he's gay or something.

Now they're mad at the guy for "hiding" his background and trying to pass himself off as a "real" Japanese.

His grandparents (identified after the fire) died in a fire in Osaka. Their last name was "Park". They owned a Korean barbecue restaurant. Not much sympathy for the victims of the fire or their family.

An American author of the book "Chrysanthium in the Sun", Charles Whiting wrote, "if all the Koreans were taken out of Japanese baseball, there wouldn't be any pro baseball league in Japan".

The japanese seem to be proud to be racist.

Yeah to Japanese we are making too big of a deal about this.


They seem to forget our grand parents were stripped of their Korean names and force to speak japanese.

Who is he and why do we care?

He's a second baseman for the Huston Astros. He was a star player in Japan before he moved to the majors few years back.

Keep in mind, the Japanese never totally embraced Japan's homerun king, Sadaharu Oh, b/c he was half-Chinese.

his nationality is still Taiwan.
however, he got the first People's Honor Award in 1977

So wonda51, what's your opinion on this guy trying to pull a wool over the Japanese, pretending to be a real Japanese?

Just what I was thinking