When you are a kid, you just want to fit in and be like everyone else. Being different is never an advantage. As people get older, they get a bit more philosophical, embrace uniqueness and think for themselves.

My Dad (RIP) was half Japanese. I am 1/4. It is so tough not really connecting to hour culture. I've been trying but it is hard.

But the North Korean government gives them citizenship.

because fuck kim jung un

Korea = Republic of Korea🇰🇷. False Korea = North Korea🇰🇵. China = Republic of China🇹🇼.

@@jaehojeong5036 I agree and salute you on this(From a Pro-ROC(Taiwan) and ROK(South Korea) Deep Blue KUOMINTANG Anti-Communist and Anti-Japan Supporter)!

In japan there is no North Korean . Because Japan doesn’t recognize that North Korea is country. As you know there are a lot of person who supports North Korea. But their nationality is not North Korea.it is japan or South Korea. Joseon is not nationality. It is just mark of family register.

@@jaehojeong5036 Support from India. Both North Korea and PRC are illegal occupation

I would say he’s 100% pure American.

An American question

Yes

I'm Vietnamese Korean

acatinny You explained all the things I know. So, please let me know what is you point from my comment. I'm a Brazilian nikkei living in Japan and I know all those discrimination still existing. But much less than before...

Your original question is "I don't understand a Korean identity born in Japan and doesn't change nationality and still wants Korean full names according to old tradition and needing the Japanese rights under Japanese law(?)." I think I answered that in my previous comment. 1)Most of 1st generations of Koreans did not want to immigrate to Japan unlike any Nikkei in NA or SA. 2)Many of 2nd and 3rd generations do not want to be Japanese because they do not want to be a citizen of Japan due to the discrimination. Still they like to have the same rights as Japanese as they were born and raised in Japan and pay tax. I live in US legally, but not having a citizenship, I do have all the rights that Americans have except voting right. Though I heard some Koreans in Japan requesting even voting rights, I cannot say it is right or wrong as their situation is different from mine. I did want to come to US, but many of them were forced. Do I like to be an American? No, even I do not have to face the obvious discrimination much here, I still feel the facts like Asians are quite low in the racial hierarchy of this society, and many White and even other minorities do not think Asians are equal beings to them, also being minority means that we have to be judged with White standards constantly as you have experienced in Brazil. Many Japanese/Asians in US pretend like there is no discrimination against them, and try to believe they are equal to White, which nobody else think that way. Many Japanese/Asian women are eager to date with White men, which makes them feel like they become a closer being to White. And no other minority women do that because they feel like drawing the line between them and White to protect their identity. The point is the struggle to have the own identity in the society where they have to be a minority regardless to the degree of the discrimination/prejudice though It depends on the situation of the individuals/groups in that society as you see in two women in this video.

In addition to that, the theater director in this video chose to have a Joseon Nationality, which does not really exist, Joseon is the country existed before the Japanese colonial ruling. Why did he do that? Because he could not identify himself as a Japanese since he felt the discrimination in Japan, also he could not identify himself a Korean as he was culturally a Japanese just like you are a Brazilian happens to have a Japanese ancestry. The identity issue is very important for a survival for human beings, without feeling secure about what you are, many life decisions can be harder. And you have to struggle if you do not find it. If there is much less discrimination/prejudice against them in Japan, I assume most of 2nd and 3rd generations choose to be naturalized as Japanese, at least legally.

Ok, I understood your point. But I don't agree some aspects you mention about discrimination, here in Japan it's coming less and less the biased feeling of that in Japanese society. If you live in US for long time or if you lived in Japan where discrimination was a normal display on the streets, I just think you have much stronger feeling about discrimination, well, I guess. Japan decreases very rapidly the population and it's much easier to naturalize Japanese than before in this past 5-10 years. I have some friends of different faces to Japanese but they are Japanese now, like some football players from Brazil. I lived in Brazil for most of my life and I had the same feeling about discrimination in Japan but I feel much less what you mentioned. That's why I commented Koreans really don't like to be Japanese or just reject the new period of time where Japan is accepting more and more foreigners to be Japanese, especially honest people(or refugees). Many foreigners think the immigration bureau the place to go but actually it's in Homukyoku(Legal bureau) this proceedings.

...And I'm naturalized Japanese, too.

She can't be trusted to be loyal to Japan. I wouldn't hire her. If your girlfriend is very pro Korea why is she living in Japan? Living in Japan way better than living in Korea?

@@denniswakabayashi4199 Can't be trusted to be loyal to Japan? Do you think she's going to blow herself up at shibuya crossing...? If she sees herself as Korean, how does that effect her ability to do her job? She's living in japan because japan brought her great grandparents to the country as slaves, that's why.

@@yasashii89 Since she rejected citizenship she has no stake in the country and cannot be trusted especially in government jobs. Her grandmother was brought to Japan but what is stopping her from living in Korea? She is not so pro Korea?

@@yasashii89 Imjin War and Korean annexation was pay back for Mongol Invasions.

@@denniswakabayashi4199 How far back in history are you going to go? Was my girlfriend alive during the mongol invasions do you think? Was it her fault?

That's correct! The largest Korean community outside of Korea is in Manchuria, China. Around 12 million Koreans live there. Russia also has a large Korean diaspora, so does Indonesia.

Wrong! Actually USA host the largest Korean populatuon

+@@Adventour04 What, wrong is not an excuse, I was sure to be correct, since a very long time, China hosts the largest Korean population in the world always, China has 2,548,030 Koreans so the US has 2,492,252, but US hosts the largest outside Asia! Besides the Japanese came to USA in 1880, but brazil in 1908, USA has the largest Japanese population in the world outside Japan in USA over 2,08,000 while brazil has 242,654 unlike the Koreans in USA, but I think it's interesting that Brazil could have a million Koreans instead of USA!

I’m Japanese American and grew up in California during the 60s, 70s, and 80s when discrimination was very strong. My wife is third generation Zainichi Kankokujin, and I can totally understand why she and her family wouldn’t want to change their nationality to Japanese and change their names to Japanese names. First of all, why should they have to change their names to Japanese names? What kind of barbaric, backwards-thinking country requires people to change their names to become citizens? Certainly not the USA (though it can definitely be argued that slaves were forced to give up their names/identities). Perhaps Japan wants the Zainichi to take on Japanese names for the same reason American slave owners felt the need to do so with their slaves. My wife cannot vote in Japan. She has the same rights that I do as a foreign resident of Japan. But the huge difference is that she was born in Japan and her parents were born in Japan. In the US, it’s automatic, I was born there, so I’m a U.S. citizen. After being treated horribly through multiple generations by the Japanese, why would her family want to apply to become a citizen of a country that does not accept them with open arms like the US and instead forces them to go through a horrible process that requires them to take a Japanese name and pay a fee to become a citizen of the country they were born in? The Japanese fascists who invaded Korea brutalized her grandparents’ community and economically forced them to have to immigrate to Japan in order to survive. In Japan, they were treated like cr*p and paid poorly. My wife’s paternal grandparents raised their children (my wife’s father and uncles) to value education and pushed them to become doctors because that was one field where there was relatively little discrimination, especially if one opened up their own practice. One son became a successful pediatrician, another son went into real estate, but my father-in-law followed his dream and studied engineering in college. All of his friends were hired right after graduating, but my father-in-law was turned down by every single company he applied to. My wife ran into the same discrimination when she graduated from a Japanese college as a pharmacist. Luckily she was able to eventually find a company who would hire her. Why would anyone want to apply to become a citizen of a country (where one was born!) that makes one jump through all kinds of degrading hoops to become a citizen?

@@diyfreediver Bro what kind of Japanese are you? Are you the superior Yamato race? or the sub human inferior Ainu race?

@@diyfreediver I'm Vietnamese-Korean. You are a hypocrite and your words have no meaning.

@@supercal3944he’s not Japanese he’s not even defending Japanese people he’s against japan rules and culture about zainichi Koreans

Not true

wow, this is the most ignorant comment Ive seen in a LONG time! like WOW I cant believe you genuinely believe joseon was "japan"!

for the time 1910-1945 Joseon was a part of Japan

we were our own independant nation annexed by japan and they lost the war, our were we not a country before?

DonMaker/It's about "citizenship"... especially of the Koreans in Japan.

they why are you talking about country? and no shit we didnt have citizenship because we got invaded