Ethnic Koreans in Japan loyal to Pyongyang hope next week's historic U.S.-North Korea summit will help bring reconciliation on the Korean peninsula and clarify their own murky legal status.. Their ...

Many ethnic Koreans were brought to Japan, often forcibly, to work in mines and factories during the country’s 1910-1945 colonial rule of Korea.

Korea University is just one of about 60 North Korean schools in Japan. According to Kiho Park, an ethnic Korean based in Osaka who studied in North Korea-funded schools, students were often ...

But for Koreans, I am born in Japan, but I see myself as Korean,” Boo said. The schools, founded by the first generation of Koreans in Japan, are privately run and financed by tuition and donations.

The Korean school system in Japan was established in 1945, just as many Koreans were losing their citizenship. Koreans, not only in Japan but also in Japanese-dominated Korea, had been chafing ...

TOKYO — When a bamboo grove mysteriously erupted in flames and nearly engulfed an office compound of Japan’s biggest pro-North Korean organization, So Chung-on was not surprised. Harassment of ...

High school students from a dance club at Kanagawa Korean Middle and High School run up stairs after their traditional dance performance at a local international day event to promote a ...