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30-01-2022, 08:44 AM
January 11, 2022 at 13:50 JST
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In December, a man in his 20s was arrested and indicted over a case of arson in August that gutted seven residences, including empty ones, in the Utoro district of Uji city in Kyoto Prefecture that is home to about 90 ethnic Koreans from roughly 50 households. Although the motive for the attack and other factors behind the crime have yet to be disclosed, the man was also arrested and indicted for a fire in July that destroyed an area of the Aichi prefectural headquarters of the pro-Seoul Korean Residents Union in Japan (Mindan) in the city of Nagoya.
During World War II, Korean laborers drafted to build an airfield lived in the Utoro district, which to this day hosts a sizable community of zainichi Koreans with permanent residence status.
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Soon after the man was arrested for the Utoro fire, windowpanes at the entrance to Mindan’s Hiraoka branch in Higashiosaka, Osaka Prefecture, were smashed.
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Another matter of deep concern is a flood of online posts that support the actions and criticize the victims.
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hatred and discrimination against Korean residents in Japan was the trigger for the incidents.
More than five years have passed since a law came into force to crack down on hate speech. No provision to punish offenders was included in the law out of consideration for the constitutional right to freedom of speech. But seeing as the law failed to quell serious cases, the city of Kawasaki introduced, after careful consideration, a municipal ordinance providing for criminal punishment against such acts.
https://www.asahi.com/ajw/articles/14519025
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In December, a man in his 20s was arrested and indicted over a case of arson in August that gutted seven residences, including empty ones, in the Utoro district of Uji city in Kyoto Prefecture that is home to about 90 ethnic Koreans from roughly 50 households. Although the motive for the attack and other factors behind the crime have yet to be disclosed, the man was also arrested and indicted for a fire in July that destroyed an area of the Aichi prefectural headquarters of the pro-Seoul Korean Residents Union in Japan (Mindan) in the city of Nagoya.
During World War II, Korean laborers drafted to build an airfield lived in the Utoro district, which to this day hosts a sizable community of zainichi Koreans with permanent residence status.
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Soon after the man was arrested for the Utoro fire, windowpanes at the entrance to Mindan’s Hiraoka branch in Higashiosaka, Osaka Prefecture, were smashed.
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Another matter of deep concern is a flood of online posts that support the actions and criticize the victims.
......
hatred and discrimination against Korean residents in Japan was the trigger for the incidents.
More than five years have passed since a law came into force to crack down on hate speech. No provision to punish offenders was included in the law out of consideration for the constitutional right to freedom of speech. But seeing as the law failed to quell serious cases, the city of Kawasaki introduced, after careful consideration, a municipal ordinance providing for criminal punishment against such acts.
https://www.asahi.com/ajw/articles/14519025
