2019, heavy Anti-Korean atmosphere
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A few months ago.
On a holiday day, I was walking in Tokyo with my daughter.
A man with a microphone stood in a small square in front of the department store.
There was a rising-sunflag in the vicinity, and there were black propaganda cars.
At a glance, I found out that it was a right-wing organization.
“A country that does n’t keep its promise,
The country that thinks international law as garbage is Korea, the neighboring country.
Koreans are those who don't keep their promises. "
I felt depressed.
Lazy holiday day,
I have to hear such disgusting remarks.
I thought that my daughter would hear, so I left my seat to escape.
The discomfort that makes goose bumps stand ,
Anyone who has ever heard the right-wing eloquence in Japan can understand.
On this day, there was a Korea-Japan exchange festival in a nearby park.
“Korean and Japanese neighbors must go together”
The day when as a hold hands on hands each other,
that day, I felt like I had a surprise attack.
“Korea violates international law.”
Of the Korean Grand Court (Supreme Court) on October 30 last year
It is a word to be heard once a day after the “Jornal Worker from Korea” compensation judgment.
If you argue that the logic is simple and "difference in the interpretation of the agreement", the explanation will be longer.
News as well as newspapers, magazines, radio and the Internet
Only the Japanese government claims.
Naturally, Japanese viewers think it is “truth”.
Naturally, Korea will be a strange country.
In the poll
“If you make a concession, there is no need to rush to improve Japan-Korea relations.”
That doesn't mean you can't understand the 69% answer.
Against Korea, heavy Anti-Korean atmosphere,
which lasted more than a year
This is the result of the “labeling” work.
Negative atmosphere for South Korea is flowing throughout Japanese society.
It ’s not that someone promised something,
The Anti-Korean atmosphere that everyone thinks like that dominates Japanese society.
Japanese friends
“We are too sensitive to political claims,” he says.
I thought carefully.
A clever mix of political claims and aversion to Korea
It hangs like heavy air.
No matter how strong your heart is, it will be reduced.
If you get an unfriendly response in a cafeteria or shop
"I wonder if he Korean".
At the kindergarten school, my daughter stands at the very end of the last line.
“I wonder if I ’m Korean because I ’m tallest.”
When using a smartphone on a train
It has been a long time since the green portal site was not opened.
A man who is actually reading Korean
There was also a time when I was approaching to make a connection.
Will Korea-Japan relations improve as the year changes?
"Application workers from the Korean Peninsula"
Will it return to the previous relationship if the solution of?
It will collapse for a moment, but it will take a long time to build again.
Even if spring comes, it seems not to be spring.
Winter is too long.
Yoon Sol Young (윤설영) / Tokyo correspondent