5/18/2023 0 Comments Pachinko novel![]() Adding to their misery, life in Korea at the time was probably worse, so they were stuck in Japan. ![]() The book really gives you the sense of how tough they had it, always on the brink of starvation and struggling to get ahead. ![]() They were treated very badly in Japan, not being able to find jobs or good housing. Over 2 million Koreans came to Japan, but most repatriated to their ancestral homes following the end of World War II. Many Koreans immigrated to Japan from when Japan annexed Korea in 1910 through to the Korean War in 1953. It follows four generations of a Korean family, starting in a fishing village in Busan in 1912 and ending in Yokohama in the late 1980s. Her book brings attention to the discrimination Korean immigrants faced and are facing, in Japan, still today. Author Min Jin Lee is Korean-born but raised from age 7 in New York. ![]() I enjoy historical fiction, the story takes place in Osaka, where I live, and expatriates play a role in some of the stories. This book is right “in my wheelhouse” in many ways, so of course, I liked it. The narrow streets of Osaka’s Korea town, Tsuruhashi ![]()
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